About Metropolitan Health
A subsidiary of JSE-listed MMI Holdings, Metropolitan Health is the largest administrator of medical schemes in South Africa. Metropolitan Health incorporates Momentum Medical Scheme Administrators, which looks after the administration of a number of open schemes, including Momentum Health. Collectively they provide medical scheme administration and managed healthcare solutions for 1,2 million principal members, covering almost 3 million lives across 26 medical schemes.
As a well-entrenched, low-cost administrator with a proven track record of creating ongoing cost efficiencies, Metropolitan Health's key differentiators include flexibility and scalability of systems, and excellent data warehousing and analysis capability. Its fully in-house developed administration services include membership management; claims processing; comprehensive premium management services; client services; scheme marketing and communications; governance, secretarial, financial and actuarial services; access to managed healthcare programmes and customized e-tools utilising mobile phone and internet technology.
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When the Government released its Green Paper on National Health Insurance (NHI), it provided the industry with a broad roadmap to reach the destination of quality healthcare for all South Africans.
Now, two months down the road, the debate has begun to centre on finding ways to effectively ensure that the broad plan makes the transition from being a distant target to a successfully implemented system.
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