Bestmed Medical Scheme · Screening and prevention

Preventative care benefits

Screenings, preventative tests and vaccines paid from Scheme RISK (not savings): flu/pneumonia/travel/paediatric vaccines, baby growth, contraceptives, mammogram, FOBT, HIV test, HPV, PSA, bone densitometry, glaucoma, pap smear, preventative dentistry.

No action neededThe scheme states this applies without registration or application.

How: Scheme risk benefit; some items pre-auth/protocols/formularies/MRP

“which entitles you to undergo a number of screenings, preventative tests and vaccines.”

At a glance

Scheme: Bestmed Medical Scheme
Benefit area: Screening and prevention
Who it is for: Every Bestmed Medical Scheme option
Limit: Per-item frequency limits (e.g. mammogram once/24mo; flu 1/yr; PSA once/24mo) · per beneficiary per item · varies
Paid from: risk
Who qualifies: Age/frequency criteria per item.
Where you may go: Selected items via contracted networks (glaucoma via Optometrist Network; baby assessments at partner pharmacy clinic)

“Mammogram - Females 40 years and older. Once every 24 months.”

“The benefit is subject to service being received from the contracted Optometrist Network only.”

Which plans carry it

Every Bestmed Medical Scheme option.

The scheme states every option.

“Bestmed offers preventative care which covers a number of benefits from the Scheme's risk benefit and not your savings.”

Where this comes from

Managed Care Guide 20261.pdf, p.3-4 · managed_care_guide. Read from that document on 2026-08-16 for the 2026 plan year.

Every statement on this page is read from a Bestmed Medical Scheme document and quoted so you can check it. Where a document says nothing, this page says so rather than filling the gap.

Check what your own plan leaves you to pay Your plan, your family, your conditions — the shortfall in rands before you choose a gap policy.

Programme rules are set by the scheme and change at renewal. This page renders what Bestmed Medical Scheme’s own documents say, with the wording quoted so you can check it. Confirm with the scheme before you rely on it.