Discovery is sticking to its guns over dad's life-saving cancer medication CapeTimesSA
Cape Town - Medical aid giant Discovery has stuck to its guns saying there was no basis on which to review its decision to decline funding for the very high-cost medicine needed to save an 81-year-old Hermanus resident.
The Council for Medical Schemes defined PMBs as “a set of defined benefits to ensure that all medical scheme members have access to certain minimum health services, regardless of the benefit option they have selected. The set of 270 conditions includes skin cancer, while conditions like glaucoma, asthma, and diabetes were covered under the 25 chronic conditions. The man, who has been a member of Discovery Health for nearly 14 years, is embroiled in a dispute with the company after the medical scheme denied paying his treatment.
Metastatic, or advanced, melanoma is a skin cancer that has spread to other places in a patient’s body.
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