The Dominican Medical Association (CMD) and different medical specialty societies announced on 21 June 2017 the restart of nationwide protests over what they call “an abuse” by the National Council of Social Security (CNSS) that for 10 years has not increased the fees for the doctors paid in medical plans. Doctor Waldo Ariel Suero, president of the CMD, noted that on 5 July they will hold a vigil in front of CNSS beginning at 10am to demand increases in the fees for doctors and that basic health plans be amended in conformity with Law 87-01 on Social Security.
Suero noted that in January 2007 the basic fee for consultations that was approved by the CNSS was RD$394.75 and at the present time this fee is RD$914.76, an increase of 131.73% in 10 years. He says “that in spite of this substantial increase, the National Committee on Professional Honorariums and the CNSS have not modified in fees paid to the doctors in brazen violation of Law 87-01 that calls for modifying these every year (Article 173, paragraph II).
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El Nacional
22 June 2017
