Latest News from BCIMA

BCIMA is a Well Managed Medical Scheme.

5.1% Contribution Increase

The scheme has a healthy solvency ratio of 117%.
Way above the legal requirement of 25%

2023 Benefit Enhancements

Alcohol and Drug Addiction

This was previously an Exclusion on the Fund. From 2022 there is a benefit of 21 days per beneficiary per year, in a Rehabilitation Centre and will be paid from the Hospital Limit.

Basic Dentistry

Now available for beneficiaries under 6 years of age – 100% of the BCIMA Tariff will apply.

Mental Health

1 Clinical Psychologist consultation, per beneficiary, per year.

Covid-19

For the treatment of Covid-19, BCIMA now has unlimited benefits for Admissions and In-Hospital therapy. PMB Tariffs will apply and will not affect the Annual Hospital Limit. BCIMA Tariff + 200%.

Preventative Care

Introducing an Unlimited Preventative Care Benefit, that will not affect your Hospital and Day-to-Day Limits.

Conservative Dentistry

Health Online

Assistance and advice are just a phone call away, on 082 911 through Netcare911’s Health-on-Line, a 24-hour Emergency Operations Centre, which provides emergency, as well as non-emergency telephonic medical advice to members and dispatches an ambulance if it is clinically indicated.