Industry entities have expressed concerns about the critical condition of providers
The Nation’s Department of Health has issued the Prepaid Medicine Entities have an overall, complementary and cumulative increase of up to 3.5 percent in the price of their benefits from 1 March next.
This is how the Resolution 531 published in the Official Gazette with the signature of Minister Ginés González García, and reaches health agents registered in the Registry of Prepaid Medicine Entities (RNEMP).
Consequently, health insurance companies and medical entities Prepaid should increase the reimbursement values of the medical assistance provided to their beneficiaries and users by providers registered in the National Registry of Providers of the Superintendency of Health Services at 3.5%.
In those contemplated of the measure, it is stated that “Industry representative entities have expressed concerns about the critical condition of most providers and stressed the need to increase the reward values they receive for the benefits they provide in order to alleviate this situation and ensure its continuity ”.
In observing the variation in health costs, it was noted that “the higher costs of the industry and the valuable and necessary investments that healthcare providers have had to make to deal with the pandemic and prevent the collapse of the health system have also been accompanied by with the reduction in the use of other habitual and / or routine benefits not related to Covid-19 and deferred based on health prioritization of this disease ”.
This “resulted in lower economic income for such benefits while the fixed costs of the care structure envisaged for this purpose remained virtually unchanged or even increased,” the resolution said on Saturday.