2023-08-17 16:01:07
That the private and public health sector is in crisis is not news. In the province of Mendozathe Association of Private Clinics and Sanatoriums (ACLISA), explained in a statement the situations that aggravate said crisis and in turn the economic factor that in recent days has brought headaches in all sectors and items of Argentina product of the devaluation generated last Monday. “The transfer of costs to the beneficiary is being evaluated,” they stressed.
“The Association of Clinics and Sanatoriums of the province of Mendoza They inform the authorities and the community in general that since Monday we have not been able to acquire the supplies, disposables and medicines habitually used in the clinics and sanatoriums. In addition, the existing shortages, which endanger the attention of the health of the population in the short term there have also been disproportionate increases that put the activity of institutions that are unable to function properly at serious risk,” they said in an official statement from ACLISA.
In it they clarify that they are receiving few inputs and “in many cases they do not have a specific price” as a result of the uncertainty that various items that work with materials and prices have been experiencing for a few days. In these cases, the delivery notes are delivered without knowing the purchase prices but receiving the benefits made in May.
“The reported shortage is added to the pre-existing underfunding, the long terms to receive the benefits provided and the high cost of the benefit in many cases provided below it,” they insisted.
And they remarked: “The sector needs immediate financing since it is an activity that does not admit stocking or stopping the activity until the panorama is clear as those who provide the medical supplies do. Payments of benefits are produced at least 90 days after after the operation was performed.”
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The full statement.
Finally, they reported that “the transfer of said costs to the beneficiary of the benefit with the so-called out-of-pocket payment is being evaluated, in order to try to guarantee the continuity of medical care, which may be affected if the supply conditions are not restored or if the income of the institutions is not sufficient to pay the costs”.
A similar measure was taken by different medical specialists such as pediatricians, obstetricians, traumatologists, surgeons and more health professionals who, from September 1, will charge a coinsurance that will have different prices depending on the specialty that the patient requires. From these sectors they assured MDZ that it is a measure that could alleviate the health crisis. Now, it seems, clinics and sanatoriums will be added.
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