They fear for future consequences, due to the exodus of this system of health professionals from all over the country, because the tariffs are far from covering the costs.
The medical community of our province views with great concern the situation generated in recent times regarding the number of healthcare professionals who abandon the prepaid, because they consider the tariffs they receive too low and that they do not cover the expenses they have.
In our city, the President of the College of Physicians of Santiago del Estero, Dr. Raúl Olivaassured that the situation “concerns the local medical community”, and that he fears because “it might have consequences in the future”, although he admitted that at the moment, “there are no large migrations” in the province.
“The problem is that the prepaid ones, among these, many of the most renowned in the country, have been left behind in terms of the fees they pay to doctors, logically, they are managed by what is authorized by the Health Superintendencewhich tells them the percentage that they should increase at any given time, and thus they add up throughout the year, but it is out of step with inflation”, analyzed Dr. Oliva.
He cited as an example that “one of the most famous prepaid pays a fee of $1,300 for the medical benefit, and the provincial social work is paying us $890, so the difference is very little, since they are companies they charge their affiliates, much more than what the Joseph“.
“This is creating discomfort in the medical family, because logically, the amount of responsibility for the treatment of patients is very low. In addition, it is very expensive to pay rent, insurance, personnel, means, training It is very expensive to be a doctor and what they pay is very little”, pointed out the doctor olive.
And he showed his concern regarding this situation by risking that “this is going to have serious consequences in the future.”
“At the moment, in Santiago we don’t have that problem. However, the situation continues to worry the medical community. It is even given that the prepaid medicine companies do not have an agreement with colleges or circles, and the doctors of Santiago del Estero they are so united in the fight to defend their interests, that they have not agreed to contract directly, as these companies did in other provinces”, concluded the president of the College of Physicians.
The Dr Cesar Beltransecretary of School Social Worksspecified that the discomfort of the doctors occurs because the fees of the prepaid “very low, compared to the fees of the union social works, they pay a little better than these, but we doctors know that the income that the prepaid have is much Taller”.
“That the tariffs be a little higher, to the doctors It’s not convenient for them,” he said.
Alarm light in service providers
The concern in the field of private health began when there was a clear tendency of some medical professionals to abandon their services to the prepaid ones, even to the most prestigious ones, which set off the alarms among the providers, who are left without the possibility to provide coverage to its members. The cause that the doctors are leaving is in “the insufficient financing that the system has. There is a very strong gap between general inflation once morest the increase in prepaid”, they explained from the Argentine Union of Health (UAS). From the national medical entity it was estimated that “the delay of tariffs with respect to inflation is 35% on average.”
