NewsWhore
10-29-2007, 04:20 PM
Participating entities in the Family Health Insurance System (SFS) that violate Law 87-01 are subject to fines of up to one million pesos, according to the recently approved Regulations on Infractions and Punishments in the SFS. The fines can go from 50 minimum wages (RD$5,635) all the way up to 200 minimum wages. Thus, a small violation of the law can bring a fine of RD$281,850. Enriquillo Matos, the head of the Dominican Medical Association (CMD), called the regulation just one more provocation for the doctors who are not obliged to obey those rules. El Caribe reported that the National Association of Private Clinics (Adeclip) had joined the doctors in their opposition to the idea of fines. Rafael Mena echoed Matos's complaint that neither the government nor the unions understand that "basically, it is the HMOs that are trying to undermine and discredit the SFS and then blame the doctors." Both doctors agree that no medical doctor has signed any contract specifying the obligation to fulfill the stipulations of the Regulations as laid out by the SFS.
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