The Dominican Medical Guild (Colegio Médico Dominicano) is accusing the health risk administrators (ARS) of monopolizing private health services in the country, and of lack of compliance of an agreement to assign a single code to physicians. The ARS are mainly owned by big banks.
Now the medics are giving the ARS 30 days to comply or they will go on strike. This time around, the CMD is siding with the National Association of Private Clinics (Andeclip) and the National Council of Specialized Medical Societies that are battling the health providers on grounds of these exercising what they consider are unfair and greedy business practices.
The medics call for the amendment of Dominican Social Security System Law 87-01 so that the veto passes to the state, that the ARS apply and update the Basic Health Plan (PBS), update the fees medics receive. They criticized the ARS for impeding the takeoff of primary care in the country, because these want to direct it.
The medics claim that the ARS has blocked the modification of the expansion of the basic plan, to continue to monopolize services to the population and deny coverage and free choice to patients for medications, procedures and diagnostic tests.
Doctors and owners of private clinics also criticized the Superintendence of Health and Occupational Risks (Sisalril) and the National Social Security Council (CNSS), for failing to comply with their responsibility as the regulators of the health system.
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Diario Libre
17 July 2018
