NewsWhore
01-16-2008, 05:10 PM
Affiliates to the Family Health Insurance Plan (SFS), the government's attempt at universal health insurance, are once more threatened with loss of coverage. This time it is Resolution 147-07, issued by the Superintendent of Health that stipulated that the HMOs would pay doctors and clinics at the rates that were in force before the government's plan went into effect last September. This resolution has been challenged by the labor unions, but the clinics and doctors have said that they will abandon the system if the resolution is not respected. Last night, the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) debated the issue that increased doctor's fees and broadened the coverage of services. The unions are disputing the requirement that stipulates that in order to obtain the maximum benefit of the program in cases of catastrophic illnesses, the patient has to have been registered in the program for at least a year.
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