In a major victory against the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS), the definition of what is, and is, not a medical scheme has been settled by the Supreme Court of Appeal.
For the first time since the Medical Schemes Act came into force on 1 February 1998, there is clarity about how the definition of the "business of a medical scheme" is to be interpreted and the demarcation between medical schemes and insurance companies.
More will be revealed…