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SignalFox · South Africa · Hospitals only · 2026 benefit year
Medical aid scheme
Option / plan
Province
Town / area

Optional — leave it on “Whole province” to see every hospital for this option in the province. Pick a town and it becomes the pin drop: the closest 5 on this network first, then “Show five more” for the next 5, and so on.

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South Africa has 71 registered medical schemes — 16 open and 55 restricted (CMS). This app now carries every scheme named for 2026 in CMS Circular 41 of 2025: all 16 open schemes, plus the 54 restricted schemes named in the circular (the circular's text names 54 against the 55 restricted schemes the CMS reported for 2024 — one name may be truncated, so this register may be one scheme short). What differs, scheme by scheme, is how much the scheme itself publishes. Full hospital-by-hospital coverage of every scheme is not possible from public sources — many schemes publish only a rule, a search tool, or nothing public at all, and those are labelled exactly that way.

Full hospital lists loaded

  • Discovery Health — Delta, Smart, KeyCare, KeyCare Start and KeyCare Start Regional networks, hospital by hospital (2026 list, version dated 13 Jul 2026). Dynamic Smart and Coastal are tool-only by design.
  • Bestmed — the combined Beat Network + Rhythm DSP list (2026) — one list shared by all five network options, not split per option. Pace and non-network Beat options are not DSP-restricted, so they show any private hospital for reference instead of that narrower list.
  • Genesis — no list needed: every option is any private hospital.

Lists loaded — with caveats

  • Medshield — the 2026 Prime/Compact list is loaded. Hospitals marked in both networks are certain; a hospital in only one network must be checked in Medshield's PDF, because the column order can't be confirmed from the extracted text.
  • Medihelp — the combined hospital list loaded is the 2025 list; Medihelp's network tiers (Tier 1 / 2 / 3) are confirmed but are not separated in that list, and no 2026 tier-by-tier list is published.

Rule, group or tool only

  • Hospital-group rules — CompCare and Cape Medical Plan (Netcare / Mediclinic / Life groups), KeyHealth (Netcare + Life + selected Mediclinics — the selected subset is not named), CAMAF Network options, Suremed Explorer, Thebemed Universal EDO (2024 brochure).
  • Tool or PDF only — Bonitas (option-group PDFs + Locate a Provider), Momentum (one combined list whose network columns can't be assigned reliably), Fedhealth GRID / Savvy / myFED, GEMS (monthly provincial PDFs, not split by option), Polmed Aquarium (PDF not transcribed), Profmed and Bankmed (finder / app only).
  • Rule-only small print — Makoti, Medimed, Sizwe Hosmed (under curatorship; no master list), Sasolmed, Netcare Medical Scheme, Transmed, Moto Healthcare, SABC, SAMWUMED, Wooltru.

Not publicly listable

  • 39 further restricted schemes are in the scheme picker above with their 2026 options from Circular 41 — AECI to Witbank Coalfields. For each one, no public hospital list, rule or lookup sufficient to name hospitals exists; their cover runs through member portals and scheme rules, so the app says exactly that rather than guessing.
  • Commed and Liberty Health do not appear in CMS Circular 41 for 2026. Older descriptions of them (including Liberty's Hospital Select / Standard / Plus) are historic, not current — they are deliberately not in the picker.