Take charge of your health and wellness this winter

Wellness and Preventative Care Benefits are provided as additional Insured Benefits, which do not contribute towards the depletion of your Medical Savings Account or your day to day insured sub limits. Make use of these Wellness and Preventative Care Benefits now and make sure you’re healthy and ready to face winter.

Flu Vaccine

100% of the Scheme’s Medicine Reference Price, limited to one vaccine pbpa

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine

100% of the Scheme’s Medicine Reference Price, limited to a total course of three doses (depending on product and age) per female beneficiary aged nine to 16 years

Childhood Vaccines (BCG, oral polio, rotavirus, diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis, inactivated polio and haemophilus influenza type B, hepatitis B, measles, pneumococcal vaccine)

100% of the Scheme’s Medicine Reference Price, for immunisations administered in accordance with the Department of Health’s Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) guidelines for children up to 12 years

Pneumococcal Vaccine

100% of the Scheme’s Medicine Reference Price, limited as follows:

• One vaccine every five years for adults 60 years and older
• One vaccine every five years for beneficiaries younger than 60 years, who have been diagnosed with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, cardiovascular disease or HIV/AIDS

Mammogram

100% of Scheme Rate, limited to one pbpa age 40 years and older (benefits for beneficiaries younger than 40 years subject to motivation and prior approval)

Bone Densitometry

100% of Scheme Rate, limited to one pbpa age 50 years and older (benefits for beneficiaries younger than 50 years subject to motivation and prior approval). Should member not meet clinical entry criteria, and they are younger than age 50, the member may claim the bone densitometry test from their Radiology Benefit. Where the Radiology Benefit is exhausted, this test may be claimed from available Medical Savings Account, if applicable to their Plan type

Prostate-Specific Antigen

100% of Scheme Rate, limited to one pbpa age 50 years and older (benefits for beneficiaries younger than 50 years subject to motivation and prior approval)

Faecal Occult Blood Test

100% of Scheme Rate, limited to one pbpa age 50 years and older (benefits for beneficiaries younger than 50 years subject to motivation and prior approval)

Tuberculosis (TB) Screening

100% of Scheme Rate, limited to one chest X-ray pbpa (for TB screening requested by registered private nurse practitioners providing on-site services at Employer Groups)

Bankmed Stress Assessment

Visit www.bankmed.co.za to complete your free online Bankmed Stress Assessment and take charge of your mental health. There is no limit on the number of assessments per beneficiary per annum.

N.B. The cost of associated consultations is not included in the Wellness and Preventative Care Benefits.

Find out more about Bankmed offerings: https://www.bankmed.co.za/portal/individual/wellness-calendar