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After many years, BCIMA’s well entrenched Basic Option remains quite unlike anything on offer in the medical schemes market. It provides a unique benefit structure and is exempt from 

Prescribed Minimum Benefits

Originally registered as a bargaining council, the scheme voluntarily converted to a medical scheme and over the years has enhanced its benefit coverage in every successive year. The benefits

offered cost far less.

The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS), which regulates the industry in South Africa, has appointed Ms Phumelele Makatini, Chief Executive Officer and Principal Officer of the Building and Construction Industry Medical Aid Fund (BCIMA), to serve on the Council’s Demarcation Product Advisory Committee (DPAC).