Dr Rufaro Godfrey Machiri

Senior Manager: Clinical Services at Polmed ZA
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(386) 825-5501
Location
City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, ZA

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Experience

    • Hospitals and Health Care
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Manager: Clinical Services
      • Jan 2022 - Present

      This role develops and implements compliant benefits to provide optimal healthcare services to members in a financially sustainable manner. It develops and implements effective, data analytics-driven, evidence-based healthcare delivery strategy to deliver optimal healthcare provision coverage and health outcomes. The role identifies opportunities for optimisation of healthcare costs, whilst ensuring delivery of quality healthcare services to members; and monitors implementation of healthcare provision including risk assessment, managed care and clinical support programmes, and provider networks. The role executes effective clinical governance and clinical audit practices within Polmed. Show less

    • South Africa
    • Education Management
    • Deputy Chairman
      • Feb 2014 - Present

      The Bosele Foundation is an education trust aimed at benefiting underprivileged children in resource-scarce communities by providing them with bursaries right fund their formal and extracurricular education. The Foundation also offers its beneficiaries exposure to professional and social opportunities otherwise denied to them because of their underprivileged backgrounds. Bosele is a Tswana word meaning “dawn”. It is the shared belief of the foundation that by providing underprivileged children with learning and personal development opportunities, and cultivating a more humanitarian culture, that we will finally see the dawn of the African Renaissance. Show less

    • South Africa
    • Financial Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Medical Advisor: Clinical Risk
      • Oct 2018 - Dec 2021

      My advisory role at Medshield is to provide clinical validation and medical advisory function to requests made by healthcare providers on behalf of members for high cost procedures and medication as well as to identify and circumvent high cost drivers in the scheme’s healthcare expenses. My advisory role at Medshield is to provide clinical validation and medical advisory function to requests made by healthcare providers on behalf of members for high cost procedures and medication as well as to identify and circumvent high cost drivers in the scheme’s healthcare expenses.

    • South Africa
    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Medical Advisor: Clinical Advisory Services
      • Jan 2016 - Sep 2018

      I am an independent medical practitioner who worked at Discovery Health Pty (Ltd) in a medical advisory capacity. My advisory role at Discovery Health involved managed healthcare and making funding decisions for clinically complex cases while promoting cost effective and quality healthcare for members of Discovery Health Medical Scheme as well as the Inhouse Schemes that Discovery Health administrates. In addition I manage interactions with external clinical providers. I am an independent medical practitioner who worked at Discovery Health Pty (Ltd) in a medical advisory capacity. My advisory role at Discovery Health involved managed healthcare and making funding decisions for clinically complex cases while promoting cost effective and quality healthcare for members of Discovery Health Medical Scheme as well as the Inhouse Schemes that Discovery Health administrates. In addition I manage interactions with external clinical providers.

    • General Practitioner
      • Jan 2014 - Jul 2017

      Part-time Locum work at a private general practice. Part-time Locum work at a private general practice.

    • Doctor in Charge of Itireleng Community Health Centre
      • Mar 2015 - Dec 2015

    • Grade 1 Medical Officer
      • Jan 2014 - Dec 2015

    • Community Service Doctor
      • Jan 2013 - Dec 2013

    • Medical Intern
      • Jan 2011 - Dec 2012

Education

  • University of Cape Town
    Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Medicine
    2005 - 2010
  • University of the Witwatersrand
    Master of Public Health - MPH, Health Economics
  • Stellenbosch University
    Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmaceutical Medicine/Medicines Development, Pharmaceutical Medicine/Medicines Development
    2015 - 2016
  • St. John's High School
    Advanced Level, Sciences
    1998 - 2003

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