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Private Practice Department
 


Mission and Daily duties

Our mission is to promote the doctor as the most crucial component of the healthcare industry.

  • Committee duties

    • We report to and execute tasks of the GPPPC and SPPC

  • Offer assistance for issues relating to managing a private practice

  • Advocate Private Practice by engaging the private healthcare industry

    • Schemes (100)

    • Council for Medical Schemes (CMS)

    • Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF)

    • Government (DoH)

  • Produce the Doctors Billing Manual (DBM) book

  • Produce the Complete CPT® for South Africa (CCSA) book

  • Online sales of these books

  • Assistance with coding systems and interpretation of medical codes.
Staff

Dr Darian van Loggerenberg (MBChB, MBA)

  • Head of the Private Practice Department

  • Interacts with the medical industry, Medical Schemes, BHF, CMS, Government and all other role players in private practice

Jackie Barnard

  • Personal Assistant to the HOD of PPD, Dr D van Loggerenberg

  • Secretary to the GPPPC

  • Secretary to the SPPC

Dr Jacques Botha (MBChB)

  • Strategic Account Manager in the PPD

  • Project manager of all Private Practice projects
Coding Unit

Glenda de Beer

  • Head of the Coding Division

  • Editor of the Doctors Billing Manual (DBM)

  • Serves on the ICD-10 task team of the national DoH

  • Chairman of PHISC

  • Serves on the NAPPI advisory board

Leonie Maritz

  • Medical Coding Consultant

  • Editor of the Complete CPT® for South Africa (CCSA)

  • Assist the medical industry with medical coding queries for doctors by phone and email.

  • Serves on the NAPPI advisory board

  • Handles product sales:

    • DBM

    • CCSA

    • eDBM

    • eCCSA

  • Training consultant on medical coding

Zandile Dube

  • Medical Coding Assistant

  • Assist the medical industry with medical coding queries for doctors by phone and email Handles product sales:

    • DBM

    • CCSA

    • eDBM

    • eCCSA
Current Projects

  1. eDBM development

  2. DBM training program

  3. E-commerce program

  4. Rate Medical Schemes

  5. Practice Cost studies

  6. Practice Cost Calculator

  7. GeoMapping of doctors – Find a SAMA doctor

  8. SOSiT project
 
Contact details

Private Practice Department 

Jackie Barnard 

012 481 2048

Coding Unit

Leonie Marirtz

012 481 2072

 

 

 

 
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