n South African Gastroenterology Review - Tariffs, coding and practice cost studies in the doldrums : private practice report

Abstract

Health care in South Africa is in a serious crisis and faces numerous, possibly insurmountable, challenges. These include the world-wide economic downturn, state health care suffering catastrophic implosion in many areas, health care worker shortages and strikes, rampant HIV, unemployment and threatened reformation with the voyeuristic potion of National Health Insurance (NHI).