The Dominican Chamber of Insurance Companies (CADOAR) canceled medical insurance contracts with four private clinics in the South. The companies did not accept insurance plan patients earlier in the week as part of a protest promoted by the Dominican Medical Association (AMD) and the Association of Private Clinics (ANDECLIP) against insurance companies. The striking physicians and clinics want the insurance companies to increase the payments for medical services made to physicians and clinics, and that these payments be made on time. The CADOAR members say that they will only negotiate with clinics and physicians on a one and one basis. The AMD and ANDECLIP took their protest to the East region of the country today. While clinics and physicians continue working, many are refusing to accept patients that want to pay with their insurance plans. More than a million Dominicans are affiliated to the private insurance medical plans that help make otherwise expensive medical services accessible to large numbers of employed Dominicans.
