NewsWhore
05-24-2011, 02:40 PM
The National Association of Private Hospitals and Clinics (Andeclip) said yesterday that the SEMMA Health Insurance Program for the nation's public school teachers has a current debt of RD$350,000,000 with the clinics. Andeclip president Rafael Mena called on the Minister of Education, Josefina Pimentel, to meet with them to find a way out of the problem. Until that comes about, he said, all medical services for teachers and their families are suspended. He added that this debt is just for the 35 clinics that are affiliated with Andeclip and have contracts with ARS-SEMMA. He said that some clinics are owed as much as six million pesos and that some doctors are owed RD$400,000. Some clinics are owed for services provided last August, September and October. Directors of ARS-Semma and from the Dominican Teachers Association as well as officials from the Ministry of Education deny that the agreement signed in February has been broken or that payments have not been made on time.
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