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This presentation provides an overview of the legislated mandate of the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS), highlights of the CMS in 2011-2012, and an overview of the financial results. It also covers the non-financial information and trends in the medical schemes industry.
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PRESENTATION TO HPC 12 OCTOBER 2012 CAPE TOWN
Outline of presentation • Legislated mandate of the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) • Highlights for the CMS in 2011- 2012 • Financial year 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012 • Overview of the financial results of CMS 2011 -12 4. Overview of medical schemes industry 2011 • Financial year 1 January-31 December 2011 • Non financial information • Financial information
DR MONWABISI GANTSHO CE & REGISTRAR OF MEDICAL SCHEMES
1. Council’s legislated mandate • Medical Schemes Act 131 of 1998 • Act governs Council & industry • Medical schemes • Administrators of medical schemes • Managed care organisations • Healthcare brokers & broker organisations • Heart of the Act: protecting beneficiaries & regulating medical schemes industry • Entire health system benefits
How the Act protects you & me • Promote non-discriminatory access to privately funded healthcare through: • Open enrolment • Community rating • Guaranteed or prescribed minimum benefits (PMBs) • Promote financial stability & sustainability • Encourage your active participation in scheme affairs • Investigate & resolve complaints
2. Highlights of Council in 2011-2012 • National Health Insurance (NHI) system • Medical Schemes Amendment Bill • Demarcation between medical schemes & health insurance products • Prescribed minimum benefits (PMBs), a pillar of the Medical Schemes Act • Determination of prices in the private health sector
2. Highlights of Council in 2011-2012 cont. • Duty to speak openly (SCA judgement in Selfmed defamation case) • Inspections & investigations (Sizwe & Medshield) • How RETAP became ITAP • Medical scheme rule amendments for 2012 • Guidance on contribution increases • Observed trends in registered contribution increases
2. Highlights of Council in 2011-2012 cont. • Improved regulatory effectiveness • Routine inspections of medical schemes • Improved accreditation standards for managed care organisations (MCOs) • Real-Time Monitoring (RTM) of the industry • Composite Risk Index (CRI), or the “traffic light approach” to regulating
2. Highlights of Council in 2011-2012 cont. • Auditor-General: 12th unqualified audit in a row (since our establishment in 2000) • Our budget comes mainly from: • Levies charged to medical schemes (per member per year) • Accreditation fees (administrators, MCOs, brokers) • Registration fees (medical schemes & their rules) • Received R94 million in 2011-2012 to regulate an industry worth R107 billion in contributions received in 2011
2. Highlights of Council in 2011-2012 cont. • Nature & extent of litigation against the Registrar & Council remained unpredictable • Council’s expenditure on legal fees amounted to R10.4 million in the financial year under review • By comparison, medical schemes spent a total of R50.5 million on legal fees, including litigation, in their 2011 financial year • Six schemes who appealed against decisions of the Registrar & Council in 2011-2012 spent R27.0 million on legal fees, including litigation
2. Highlights of Council in 2011-2012 cont. • One of Council’s key responsibilities is to resolve complaints relating to the medical schemes industry • Council receives thousands of complaints every financial year, and this number keeps growing • Received 6 138 complaints in 2011-2012 • Resolved 5 963 complaints in 2011-2012 • Most complaints relate to the non- or short-payment of prescribed minimum benefits (PMBs)
OVERVIEW OF CMS FINANCIAL RESULTS DAN LEHUTJO CFO
Overview of the financial results of CMS 2011 -12 • Audit report • Statement of financial position • Statement of financial performance
Audit Report • Report on the financial statement • Clean or Unqualified Opinion • Predetermined objectives • Compliance with laws & regulations • Internal control
NON FINANCIAL INFORMATION MICHAEL WILLIE ACTING SENIOR MANAGER
Strategic goal 1 • Access to good quality medical scheme cover maximized • Improve risk pools • Enhance community rating • Open enrollment • Prescribe minimum benefits
Strategic goal 2 • Medical schemes are properly governed, responsive to the environment and beneficiaries are informed and protected • Ageing profile of beneficiaries • Membership • Governance failures • Increasing healthcare costs
Beneficiaries (Million)
Beneficiaries cont. • Trend: from 6.7 million beneficiaries in 2000 (the introduction of the Medical Schemes Act 131 of 1998) to 8.5 million beneficiaries in 2011 – an increase of 26.9% • Open schemes trend: from 4.7 million in 2000 to 4.8 million in 2011 (2.1% growth) • Restricted schemes trend: from 2.1 million in 2000 to 3.7 million in 2011 (76.2% growth) • GEMS (Government Employees Medical Scheme) is responsible for growth in restricted schemes membership (since 2006)
Age of beneficiaries • Average age of beneficiaries: 31.6 years (31.5 years in 2010) • Average age in open schemes: 33.3 years • Average age in restricted schemes: 29.5 years • Explained by GEMS (since 2006) • Open schemes have been growing older • Restricted schemes have been growing younger
Utilisation of healthcare services • More beneficiaries used private hospitals in 2011, and they stayed longer than in 2010 • 167.7-178.81 per 1000 average beneficiaries • ALOS 3.0-3.2 days • Fewer beneficiaries used general practitioners (GPs), dentists & private nurses in 2011 • Beneficiaries in restricted schemes use healthcare services more often & for longer than beneficiaries in open schemes
Utilisation of healthcare services Real increase or data quality ?
Benefits paid (% of all) TH:36.6 % MS:22.8% Meds:16.3% GPs:7.3% Other: 17.3% R93.2 Billion
Total healthcare benefits paid 2000-2011 2011 data PH: R330.7 MS: 208.1 Meds: 148.2 Dentists: R25.2 Dental S: R24.7 S&AP: R71.8
Strategic goal 3 -4 • Council is responsive to the needs of the environment • Provide influential strategic advice and support to health policy
FINANCIAL INFORMATION TEBOGO MAZIYA HEAD: FINANCIAL SUPERVISION
Financial information • Claims as a function of contributions • Relationship between claims and non-healthcare expenditure • Components of non-healthcare expenditure • Net healthcare results • Solvency • Overall trends
Contributions and claims(pabpm) pabpm = per average beneficiary per month
Claims and non-healthcare expenditure pabpa = per average beneficiary per annum
Non-healthcare expenditure Consists mainly of: • Gross administration expenditure (biggest component) – 67.6% • Managed healthcare: management services – 20.1% (19.5%) • Brokers fees – 11.5% • Impaired receivables – 0.9% (1.5%) Figures in brackets depicts 2010 figures
Non-healthcare expenditure • Increased by 4.8% to R12.1 billion • pabpm figures increased by 2.7% • Open: increased by 4.8% to R154.1 (R147.1) • Restricted: increased by 2.7% to R76.1 (R74.1) pabpm = per average beneficiary per month Figures in brackets depicts 2010 figures
Gross administration expenditure • Increased by 4.7% to R8.2 billion • Open schemes: increased 3.0% to R5.6 billion • Restricted schemes: increased 9.1% to R2.4 billion • GAE is main component of NHE: 67.6% • Adjusted for membership (pabpm): • Open: R101.4 (R96.6) • Restricted: R54.9 (R54.1) pabpm = per average beneficiary per month Figures in brackets depicts 2010 figures