Patients suffering from HIV/AIDS, cancer and other chronic diseases will now lose the right to choose health care providers of their preference as local medical aid companies switch to a designated service provider system.
Botswana Medical Aid Society (BOMAID) has already sent out forms to potential designated service providers for purposes of signing contracts.
A designated service provider is a healthcare provider (such as a doctor, specialist, allied healthcare professional, pharmacist or hospital) that is a medical’s scheme’s first choice when members need diagnoses, treatment or care for a prescribed minimum benefit condition.
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