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Here’s How to Get Free medication deliveries

22 May 2024

Simply send a WhatsApp message to 012 426 4655 to contact Medipost Pharmacy. From there, you can register as a patient. This enables you to place requests for your medication to be dispensed, arrange for free courier delivery and route your delivery to an alternative address if needed.

Efficient, affordable care

Medipost Pharmacy can communicate with patients in all official languages and keeps the costs of chronic medicines low due to the large scale of its operations and the fact that the group of companies complement one another in a secure value chain.

The group’s in-house supply and distribution service, Kawari Wholesalers, obtains medicines directly from pharmaceutical manufacturers. The group’s logistics company, MediLogistics, transports the medicines to Medipost Pharmacy in accordance with the principles of Good Pharmacy Practice.

Once the medicines have been dispensed, MediLogistics delivers the patient-ready parcels directly to patients or medicine collection points, including doctors’ practices, completing the continuum of care.

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2015 Golden Arrow Medical Billing

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2015 Golden Arrow Medical Billing

Date: 18 Nov 2018

 

 

GOLDEN ARROW EMPLOYEES’ MEDICAL BENEFIT FUND

 

GENERAL PRACTITIONER FEE SCHEDULE FOR 2015 Tariff item

 

Tariff code

 

2015 total amount

 

Consultation: including all acute medication administered or dispensed (dispensing doctor)*

 

0190

 

R358.60

 

Consultation: includes medication administered (non-dispensing doctor)*

 

0190

 

R269.00

 

Follow-up consultation: for dispensing doctor**

 

0192

 

R191.90

 

Follow-up consultation: for non-dispensing doctor

 

0192

 

R191.90

 

House visits: including all acute medication administered or dispensed

 

0145

 

R394.50

 

Emergency house visits during the night and over weekends: including all acute medication administered or dispensed

 

0146

 

R538.00

 

* The consultation tariff includes writing of any prescriptions, chronic medication applications and special motivations.

** An additional R66.00 will be paid if medication is dispensed, on condition that details of dispensed medication (medicine code – NAPPI) are submitted with the account. For easy access to NAPPI codes, click here.

 

Note: Kindly view tariff codes 0145 and 0146 as global fees for these specific services. They can, therefore, not be billed together with 0190.

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Hearing Aid NAPPI Codes

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Hearing Aid NAPPI Codes

Date 29 June 2018

Dear Healthcare Provider,

From 1 January 2017, all hearing aid claims will require the submission of a valid NAPPI code. From 1 April 2017 any hearing aid claim submitted without a valid NAPPI code, will be rejected and a unique rejection code will alert you and your patient of the NAPPI code requirement to rectify this in order to process and pay your claim.

 

Nappi Codes

Based on the definition in the Medicines and Related Substances Control Act (No 101 of 1965), hearing aids fall within the category termed “medical devices”. In the medical aid industry, the current standard process is that medical devices are identified via unique NAPPI codes. The submission of a NAPPI code with any medical device is an acceptable and standard claims submission norm. It allows for transparent product identification and pricing. The NAPPI code thus enables the processing of claims on a uniform basis, subject to scheme specific benefits and rules.

 

Claims submission

We have been advised that when you submit your claim for tariff code 821830 or 83051 (global charge for supply and fitting of hearing aid and follow-up), ensure that the NAPPI code is submitted in the descriptor field of the claim. The actual price of the NAPPI code is not required on the claim. The claimed amount for these two tariff codes should be the composite of the cost of the hearing aid and the cost of the associated professional fees.

 

Medprax Nappi File

We have included all valid NAPPI codes for hearing aids in our Material file. These include the correct pricing for each hearing aid and device, and will be automatically imported into your software when you run your weekly update. You are able to charge the correct price according to the medical aid reimbursement rate. Your software can assist you should you wish to only claim the amount for the tariff codes and submit the NAPPI code at a zero price.

 

Contact us

Please do not hesitate to contact us should you wish to subscribe to the weekly Material file update.

If you have any questions or need assistance in understanding the requirements for the above hearing aid claims.

 

 

Karen Colby

031 9049208

karen@medprax.co.za

 

 

Medihelp Pensioners Migrated to Gems

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The Employer (Government) has taken the decision to migrate a group of State pensioners, who retired before 1 July 1992 from the Public Service, from Medihelp to the Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS) with effect from 1 April 2012. The members who will be migrating have been issued new GEMS membership numbers.

In order to assist GEMS in making this transition as efficient as possible with minimum disruption of healthcare services for its new members, we have received the list of authorisations from Medihelp that is currently being transferred to the GEMS membership numbers.

All healthcare providers are kindly requested to note and engage with GEMS, on the contact details provided below, regarding the treatment and authorisation requirements for these members. Where a member is admitted in hospital during the transition period, a new authorisation to claim for period commencing 1 April 2012 will be required. If an authorisation for treatment before 31 March 2012 was obtained from Medihelp, it is important that you close off the files and claims for the affected patients at midnight 31 March 2012.

Claims for treatment up to and including 31 March 2012 must be submitted to Medihelp and claims from 1 April 2012 must be submitted to GEMS.

Please note that the GEMS Scheme rules, clinical protocols and benefit entitlements will apply and these may result in a different outcome with regard to the authorisation request.

Contact details
Tel: 0860 00 4367 (GEMS)
Fax: 0861 00 4367
Email: chronicauths@gems.gov.zaor hospitalauths@gems.gov.za

2017 Medical Procedures for Network GPs

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Network Providers

2017 Procedures reimbursable over and above the Consultation Fee

Procedure

Code

Procedure

Description

Bestmed

Onecare

Universal

Network

Momentum

Network

0300

Stitching of a wound

169.90

176.85

387.00

347.55

0301

Stitching of an additional wound

84.80

88.43

81.00

77.70

0307

Excision and Repair by direct suture

327.30

341.08

483.00

463.05

0255

Drainage of a subcutaneous abscess and avulsion of  a nail

242.30

252.65

 

282.00

 

0887

Limb Cast

357.80

164.23

427.00

386.40

0259

Removal of a foreign body superficial to facia

533.10

252.65

404.00

386.40

1232

Electrocardiogram : without effort

113.70

112.00

 

140.00

1233

Electrocardiogram : With and without effort

165.00

164.23

 

189.00

2133

Circumcision : Clamp procedure

513.10

 

534.36

 

578.55

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