"Access to healthcare for our members continues to be a priority hence the introduction an out-of-hospital Primary Care Extender Benefit on selected options. This will provide an extra cushion of R500 per beneficiary per year on the Emerald and Emerald Value options, so that members can continue to access healthcare services if their benefits for general practitioner services, prescribed medicine and pathology tests are depleted before the end of the year," says Dr Stan Moloabi, Chief Operations Officer at GEMS.