Our approach to healthcare excellence is “tailor-made” and Bestmed provides a service experience unique to member requirements. Bestmed is a Medical Aid Scheme for the members, by the members.
Bestmed is a non - profit, mutual medical scheme registered with the Council of medical Scheme and has been providing quality healthcare for over 52 years.
As one of the top five open medical schemes in the country, Bestmed owes its success and continued growth to it's member. Bestmed is by members, for members and this philosophy inspires ownership, trust, and high levels of quality, externally and internally.
Bestmed is an open medical scheme and operating as the biggest self -administrated Medical Aid Scheme in South Africa. With our extensive experience and exceptional expertise, we negotiate with service providers to offer members benefits and services that are Rand-for-Rand the best value compared to other larger open medical schemes.
We also maintain a strong operational focus, as we continuously strive to drive down costs. We are work hard to contain increases in member contributions.
Finally, our lifestyle and preventative care philosophy remains a key theme at Bestmed and aims to achieve two goals – enhance the quality of life of our members and simultaneously reduce the burden on our risk pool.
The mission of Bestmed is to operate a non-profit mutual medical scheme in terms of the Act, in a financially responsible manner, so as to give its members cover for their healthcare expenses by:
- Using members’ contributions and other income effectively and wisely
- Operating and administrating one or more benefit options and/or schemes
- Striving for a balanced growth in membership
- Rendering healthcare services
- Negotiating with providers of service for the supply of high quality, cost-effective services
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