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Risk Equalisation in South Africa
•Department of Health (2002), Inquiry Into the Various Social Security Aspects of the South African Health System . Policy Options for the Future., 14 May 2002. Available on http://www.medicalschemes.com
•Chapter 7 : Risk Equalisation.
Also available for download here
The diagram below indicates the role that the Risk Equalisation Fund (REF) was designed to play with regard to private health insurance (medical schemes).
For electronic copies of papers see links on the page and below.
If not available, contact:
Professor Heather McLeod
E-mail: hmcleod@iafrica.com
The papers below were presented to the Risk Adjustment Network, an international network of researchers, in Dublin in 2008. The first provides an overview of the South African health system and outlines the methodology for determining the risk equalisation formula. The second paper describes the experience with including chronic disease in the risk equalisation formula.
More detailed reports on the methodology for risk equalisation in South Africa
Risk equalisation tables in Excel from 2005 onwards
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