NewsWhore
10-10-2007, 02:00 PM
Nose, eye and ear specialists decided to no longer work with patients affiliated to the Family Health Insurance Program (SFS) plan. The reason is that in some cases, the ARS reduced by 70% the payments they were receiving under the previous plan. The specialists say they will only accept complementary insurance plans. As reported in Listin Diario, it is likely that other specialists will follow suit and no longer accept the SFS patients. At the start of the plan, specialists were requiring patients pay RD$500 additional, up from RD$300 in the past. The medics protest that the ARS have unilaterally reduced the payments they were previously receiving. The decision would collapse the SFS plan and oblige patients to purchase the complementary plans at a much higher cost.
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