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The Board of Healthcare Providers says new health tariffs will help to stabilise medical costs and provide certainty to medical schemes and patients.
Board MD, Humphrey Zokufa, says nowhere else in the world is there a situation where healthcare providers do not have a pricing guideline to work off.
Zokufa said medical scheme providers had been prohibited from discussing tariffs with healthcare providers due to a Competition Commission ruling in 2005.
He said a reference price list had been ended by a High Court order in 2010 and no guidelines had existed to replace them until the new tariffs were proposed.
