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.

Source: South African Government News Agency