Use your preventative care benefits

The Scheme can see it in the claims submitted by members: many of us avoided the doctor and necessary health checks during the pandemic. Even now, as we approach winter, we feel like we should rather not meet too many people indoors. We do however urge you to make use of your preventative benefits - not only if you notice health concerns. Many chronic conditions, when diagnosed and treated before you 'feel' the effects of the condition, can be managed, preventing them from progressing or worsening. Once you have identified a chronic condition, don't forget to register it as soon as possible. This ensures that diagnostic tests, consultations and medication for this condition will be paid out of a dedicated benefit, which will be made available when you register the condition, and not from your day-to-day benefits. Check on your plan's page or your Benefit Guide which chronic conditions the Scheme considers for funding. To ease this process, we try to keep the admin very simple: to register your condition, your doctor or pharmacist just needs to call the Scheme.

Published: May 2022.