Medical schemes and administrators are 1.4 times more likely to conclude black healthcare practitioners have committed fraud, waste or abuse than their nonblack counterparts, according to the interim findings of an investigation into racial profiling commissioned by the industry regulator.
The interim report was released on Tuesday morning, after the Government Employees Medical Scheme and the Board of Healthcare Funders failed to block it at the eleventh hour with an urgent court application. Judge Colleen Collison ruled on Tuesday morning that the applicants had failed to convince her why they had not approached the court earlier, since the report’s release had originally been planned for December. She struck the matter from the roll, clearing the way for the report’s release...
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