2023-09-22 03:21:00
More than 30 entities that bring together doctors of different specialties they announced that They will begin to charge a co-payment or additional bonus for attending to prepaid and social work patients, and that they will adjust it every two months. That additional might have a floor of 6,000 pesos per consultation.
“Today, we doctors say enough! Enough of imposing an unworthy value on us for our fees, no more delays in payments, no more unjustified debits, and no more having control over the value of our work,” they warned.
This additional, which will represent a extra headache for millions of Argentines, seeks for doctors to charge a floor of 6,000 pesos per consultation. They did not clarify how much difference the patient must pay in this “bonus” so that the professionals can collect that money per consultation.
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The decision was communicated by more than 30 medical societies and federations of different specialties throughout the country.
They call it “non-refundable complementary bonus“, which must pay patients so that professionals can reach the floor 6,000 pesos per consultation which, as they claim, they would not be reaching.
The statement from more than 30 entities that bring together doctors from different specialties
The announcement was made through a statement framed in the “Health Day“.
“This September 21, the doctors of the Argentine Republic have no reason to celebrate. We are going through a sad reality: a crisis that has led to medical fees at lowest level in history“, they warned.
“The medical consultation is a fundamental act in which we attend to the needs of our patients, diagnose diseases and work on their recovery. It is also the act through which we receive a professional fee that allows us to live with dignity,” the document continues.
Along those lines, they said that “traditionally, this service was valued by health funders, but we have never had the ability to set its value ourselves. We were never able to determine how much we should receive for this work and when we should receive it.”
“In recent years, the value of medical consultation has experienced a drastic dropranking as one of the lowest in the region,” they warned.
They assure that to this was added “the delay in payment of fees between two and six months“, which, they warn, is “unsustainable for health professionals with the existing high inflationary level.”
Likewise, they noted: “From this moment on, the price of the service, the value of our fees, will be in the hands of the doctors themselves, through our associations, chambers, councils, federations and medical societies that represent us.”
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They explained that to continue maintaining quality and excellence in care, they will implement, from now on, a “minimum ethical value of the medical consultation, and the ‘minimum ethical medical fee’ that we have arrived at to maintain a decent federal tariff floor is 6,000 pesos”.
“The difference between what we receive from the system (managers, social works, prepayments, sanatoriums, clinics) as the consultation value and said ‘minimum ethical medical fee’, must be paid by the patient at the consultation,” they noted.
That value, they anticipated, “will be adjustable bimonthly having as reference the inflation index Throughout the national territory”.
“It is not a coinsurance. It is not an additional. It is not a copayment. This difference is a non-refundable complementary bonus “, they assured, which suggests that they do not intend to bill it either.
The text has the endorsements of 33 entities, such as the Argentine Association of Surgery, the Argentine Association of Orthopedics and Traumatology, the Argentine Society of Cardiology, the Argentine Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics Societies, the Argentine Society of Urology and the Argentine Association of Clinical Oncology.
In addition, six other entities, including the Argentine Council of Ophthalmology and the Argentine Federation of Cardiology, expressed their support.
What are the entities that adhere to the measure?
- Argentine Association of Orthopedics and Traumatology (AAOT) and Argentine Association of Orthopedics and Traumatology (AAOT)
- Argentine Surgery Association
- Argentine Association of Head and Neck Surgery. (AACCYC)
- Argentine Association of Controversies in Obstetrics and Gynecology (AACOG)
- Argentine Association of Gynecological Oncology
- Argentine Menopause Andropause Association (AAMA)
- Argentine Association of Neurosurgery
- Argentine Association of Clinical Oncology
- Argentine Association for the Study of Climate (AAPEC)
- Argentine Civil Association of Pediatric Surgery (ACACIP)
- Association of Otorhinolaryngology of Buenos Aires
- Association of Professionals of Santa Isabel (APROSI)
- Argentine Medical Association of Contraception (AMADA)
- Argentine Urogynecological Association (AUGA)
- Argentine College of Cardiology
- Argentine Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics Societies (FASGO)
- Argentine Federation of Otorhinolaryngology Societies (FASO)
- National Federation of Neurosurgery (FNNC)
- Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics of Buenos Aires (SOGIBA)
- Argentine Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Province of Buenos Aires (SOGBA)
- Argentine Society of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery (SACPER)
- Argentine Society of Gynecological and Reproductive Endocrinology (SAEGRE)
- Argentine Society of Cardiology (SAC)
- Argentine Society of Dermatology (SAD)
- Argentine Society of Cardiac Electophysiology (SADEC)
- Argentine Endometriosis Society (SAR)
- Argentine Society of Infant and Juvenile Gynecology (SAGIJ)
- Argentine Society of Mastology (SAM)
- Argentine Society of Reproductive Medicine (SAMER)
- Argentine Society of Emergency Pathologies and Emergentology (SAPUE)
- Argentine Society of Rheumatology (SAR)
- Argentine Society of Urology (SAU)
- Argentine Society of Gynecological Surgery (SACIG)
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