{"id":120808,"date":"2019-01-07T15:56:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T15:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=120808"},"modified":"2019-01-08T12:16:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T12:16:17","slug":"46-of-dominicans-are-affiliated-to-senasa-health-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/01\/07\/46-of-dominicans-are-affiliated-to-senasa-health-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"46% of Dominicans are affiliated to Senasa health plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SENASA-Noticias-SIN-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120783\"\/><figcaption>Photo: Noticias SIN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 4,671,487 Dominicans, most of whom are from low income households, are affiliated to the Seguro Nacional de Salud (Senasa), the government-sponsored health plan. The coverage benefits many that are seniors, jobless, persons with disabilities, employed at domestic households, and other low-paying jobs and expats. Nevertheless, the Senasa health plan is known to offer better coverage for catastrophic illnesses than most private health plans and is accepted at the major Dominican-government operated health centers that also cater to the affluent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senasa executive director Mercedes Rodriguez Silver says that only one million of its affiliates are part of the so-named Regimen Contributivo, and therefore pay into the system. She highlighted in 2018 the health plan was certified ISO 9001:2015 becoming the only health provider (ARS) to have the international quality management system certification. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/noticiassin.com\/alrededor-del-46-de-los-dominicanos-esta-afiliado-en-ars-senasa\/\">Noticias&nbsp;SIN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 January 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 4,671,487 Dominicans, most of whom are from low income households, are affiliated to the Seguro Nacional de Salud (Senasa), the government-sponsored health plan. The coverage benefits many that are seniors, jobless, persons with disabilities, employed at domestic households, and other low-paying jobs and expats. Nevertheless, the Senasa health plan is known to offer better &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/01\/07\/46-of-dominicans-are-affiliated-to-senasa-health-plan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120840,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120808\/revisions\/120840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}