2023-11-02 17:21:36
The The situation of the laboratories is critical in Río Negro due to the “excessive” increases in supplies, reagents and services, mostly imported. From the Rio Negro College of Biochemists they point to social and prepaid works since due to the collection chain, they end up losing.
Diario RIO NEGRO spoke with the president of the entity, Jorge Alegre, who came out to publicly explain the crisis that the laboratories are going through. “The inputs arrive with a totally excessive increase, there are increases of up to 400%. “We are very worried”Alegre said this afternoon.
In the collection chain with prepaid, which in many cases is from the day the practice is carried out to five months later, they do not recover even half of the value. “We are losing (…) below inflation levels,” added the biochemist.
From the Río Negro School They are not unaware of the general crisis and widespread uncertainty that the community and health teams are going through, but they spoke in particular of the one that hits the Clinical Analysis Laboratories.
Import problems intensified and international prices impact the economy. According to the entity’s reading, all this is in return for the “insufficient adjustment of fees and expenses” and the “lack of recognition by prepaid medicine companies and union social works.”
According to the College, companies fail to comply with the regulations dictated by the Superintendency of Health Services (Law 26,682, art. 17)and this ends up affecting the finances of those who provide services in the field.
“For a long time, we have not been able to compensate for inflation due to a lack of updating in the values of agreements and with the aggravating factor that the payments for the contracted services are credited some time after the patients are treated, and in many cases with unjustified delays, while the reagents must be paid in cash or by open invoice and in some extreme cases with shortages”, They detailed to this medium.
“The defunding of laboratories is already a fact, with deficient resources and in some practices with greater losses than recoveries.”
Río Negro College of Biochemists
Crisis in laboratories: extra 5,000 to members
Se It puts the normal functioning of services for the entire community at risk and the only option or alternative they have left – they said – is to “collect an emergency compensation bonus.” to members of prepaid medicine companies who are late in payments and agreed updates. They stated that only then will they be able to continue providing coverage.
After evaluating it for a whilethis Thursday they confirmed that in Rio Negro they will implement the collection of the 5,000 pesos bonus starting Monday, November 6, when they are overwhelmed by the situation. The measure had already been announced by the College of Biochemists of the Province of Neuquén.
Specifically, the companies affected by the measure are Aca Salud / Avalian, Sancor Salud, Medicus, Medifé, Federada Salud and Omint.
“Due to the serious general economic situation, the delay in payments and updating of benefit rates aggravated by the difficulty of accessing basic and reactive suppliesis that the lack of recognition and non-compliance of these companies puts the normal functioning at serious risk. of the laboratories”, they launched through a public statement.
“Neuquén Laboratories will begin to charge a bonus to prepaid members who do not comply with the increases established by the Superintendency of Health Services,” indicates the letter released by the Neuquén institution this morning.
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