The Compensation Fund on Wednesday announced that it will no longer process any invoices submitted by Sinempilo Medical Billing.
The move comes after the fund conducted a large scale fraud investigation, where “risky” transactions were found, directly implicating Sinempilo Medical Billing.
Sinempilo is a medical billing company that does business on behalf of medical service providers.
“The Compensation Fund has a duty to prevent fruitless and wasteful expenditure and protect medical service providers. As such, the Fund will no longer be processing any invoices submitted through Sinempilo, effective from today [7 February 2018],” the Fund said in a statement.
The Compensation Fund is a schedule 3A entity of the Department of Labour with a clear mandate of providing compensation to occupationally diseased or injured employees.
Workers, who are affected by occupational injuries and diseases, are entitled to compensation. – SAnews.gov.za