Compcare Medical Aid
Guide to Compcare Medical Aid Plans
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A complete guide on designing your Compcare Medical Aid plan.
Compcare offers affordable benefits and the scheme is the most likely to be recommended by aid brokers.
11 reasons to choose a Compcare medical aid plan for your and your family.
- One of the top Schemes in South Africa. With 45+ years' experience, Compcare offers medical aid cover to all South Africans
- Wide range of options. Select from a range of medical aid options specifically tailored to suit the healthcare needs of individuals, young couples, and families.
- Benefits that support and encourage your active lifestyle and paid by the scheme. Fitness assessments and exercise prescription programmes with access to registered biokineticists and exercise facilities. Healthy eating and sports nutrition programmes.
- Women's Health paid by the scheme. Mammograms, cervical cancer vaccination and contraceptives.
- Men's Health. Prostate checks.
- Kids' Health paid by the scheme. Newborn hearing screening and congenital hypothyroidism benefit.
Baby wellness visits, childhood immunisations, school readiness assessments, pre-school eye, hearing and dental screening, occupational therapist visits for children, a nutritional assessment and healthy eating plan, as well as a fitness assessment and exercise prescription programme.
Baby wellness visits, childhood immunisations, school readiness assessments, pre-school eye, hearing and a dental screening.
Unlimited visits to the GP and basic dentistry for children younger than six, once your day-to-day benefits are depleted. - Extreme and adventure sports: Healthcare cover when participating in professional and adventure sports.
- Unlimited Oncology. Unlimited cancer treatment programme, subject to treatment protocols at designated service providers.
- Emotional Health paid by the scheme: Unlimited professional telephonic emotional health and well-being support around-the-clock and referrals for one-on-one counselling.
- Superior services and benefits delivered through our partnership with leading healthcare administrator, Universal Healthcare.
- Regardless of the day of the month, we offer you instant next day cover at a prorated premium, eliminating traditional waiting periods.
- The uWellness app provides R40,000 in preventative benefits per member, covering eight wellness dimensions with AI tools, surveys, and wearables integration.
Digital services like uConsult for virtual GP chats and SARAH AI health assistant enhance convenience at no extra cost.
Choose from 7 plans.
You are sure to discover the right plan at the right price for your needs!
ExecuCare Plus - a trustworthy and comprehensive medical aid plan that offers 24/7 medical emergency assistance and unlimited private hospital cover, including private ward, Fixed day-to-day benefits with safety net where benefits used. 74 chronic conditions.
Premiums range from
R 13,162 pm with R 22,930 savings for day-to-day costs.
Safety net of R 28,130
ExecuCare - Netcare hospitals for a discounted premium!
Premiums range from
R 11,709 pm
with R 22,930 savings for day-to-day costs.
Safety net of R 28,130
UltraCare Plus - comprehensive coverage that includes unlimited hospital. Fixed day-to-day benefits with safety net where benefits used. 66 chronic conditions.
Premiums range from
R 10,858 pm with R 16,640 day-to-day limit.
Safety net of R 27,248
UltraCare - Netcare hospitals for a discounted premium!
Premiums range from
R 9,014 pm with R 16,640 day-to-day limit.
Safety net of R 27,248
SuperCare Plus - unlimited private hospital, and a day-to-day savings fund, with safety net when savings spent. 75 chronic illness with depression medication.
Premiums range from
R 9,704 pm with R 29,100 day-to-day limit.
ExtraCare - unlimited Netcare/ Mediclinic private hospital plus specified day-to-day benefits, Day-to-Day Extra benefits for out-of-hospital radiology, pathology, basic dentistry, physiotherapy and biokinetics. 40 chronic conditions.
Premium R 6,968 and Day-to-Day benefit of R 6,970
SaverCare Plus - unlimited Netcare/ Mediclinic private hospital, generous out-of-hospital cover, including GP visits, medicines, and dental care, and nearly R70,000 in daily value. Specified sports supplements. 27 listed Chronic illnesses as well as depression medication.
Premiums range from
R 4,394 pm with R 7,896 day-to-day savings and
R 5,272 for certain costs.
SelfCare Plus - Gen Z or young professional looking for your first medical aid? Unlimited Netcare/ Mediclinic private hospital and a day-to-day savings account. R29,100 in wellness benefits, specified sports supplements. 27 listed Chronic illnesses as well as depression medication.
Premiums range from R 2,820 pm with R 3,372 day-to-day savings.
Student Plan - Affordable Medical Aid For Students
From Only R625 pm
Here is another excellent student medical aid.
HospiCare - unlimited Netcare hospital plan including medical emergencies, surgeries, and other lifesaving medical procedures. 27 listed Chronic Disease.
Premiums from R 5,192 pm
Choose the Compcare option that is right for you.
- Preventing illness and promoting health and therefore each and every option includes promotive, preventative, curative, rehabilitative and supportive benefits.
- Looking at families holistically recognising the life changes and needs of both parents and children. Including appropriate care for the whole family.
- A wellness benefit that supports a healthy lifestyle. Access to a biokineticist, gym, dietician, nutritional assessment and a healthy eating programme.
- An emotional wellness benefit with unlimited telephone counselling and 3 face-to-face psychologist sessions.
- Emergency assistance at accident or injury scenes. Transportation to a hospital - including airlifts.
- CompCare covers all costs relating to sports injuries, including Extreme Sports.
Wellness benefits
- Preventative care like GP wellness consult, blood pressure, sugar, cholesterol, BMI, HIV, malaria, flu, glaucoma.
- Emotional care like psychiatric treatment in hospital, psychology: non-psychiatric admissions, clinical sychologists, alcoholism, drug dependence and narcotics.
- Speciality care like unlimited oncology including chemotherapy and radiotherapy, biological agents and specialised medication, wound care, home nurse, step-down facilities.
Active Lifestyle Programmes
- Biokineticist fitness assessment and exercise prescription, nutritional assessment and healthy eating plan, specified wearable devices, specified sports supplements.
Through the Care Maximiser, Preventative Care and Wellness benefits, you can enjoy an additional range of day-to-day benefits, paid by the scheme without impacting your pocket. (plan dependant amounts)
Preventive Care and Wellness enhance your day-to-day cover by offering screenings and check-ups for early detection of health issues, while also supporting your overall well-being.
Private healthcare providers can charge up to 500% of medical scheme rates.Medical aids add procedure co-payments as well.
These are significant costs you must consider.
Protect yourself by joining Zest's GAP or top-up insurance plan.
This separate insurance will cover most in-hospital claim shortfalls and any co-payments. It is a vital safety net, ensuring you have enough to cover medical treatments, without having to pay for unexpected costs.Joining a hospital plan with Gap Cover is the most affordable way for families to protect against rising costs in 2026.
Specialised Dental treatments can be extremely expensive!
The costs of braces, root canal, implants and so on, can run into thousands of rand.
Most treatments are done out-of-hospital, and are paid from your savings.
That can result in less money available for other medical needs and family limits being used on one member only!
Dental treatment is something we all need and it is vital you consider the Best Dental Insurance Plan OR Most Affordable Dental Plan in South Africa.
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