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(Title) Elements literally shocking to the overpricing of materials from private hospitals against the insurance fund is highlighting a study by the University of Athens, showing the wasting orgy.
Clinical charged in IKA up to 235 euros for a skin stapler when in public hospitals to secure appropriate and acceptable type of quality costs (based on GG) 8 euros. In conclusion, low-cost materials used in daily surgical practice have brought in companies, doctors, administrators several million euros.
Assuming, with the most conservative estimates, the average invoicing a stapler is 10 euro, after the private hospitals are approximately 250,000 operations annually, the cost of funds-only is this 2.5-million.
The “dance” of millions of the materials used in routine surgery does not stop here: the charts, which costing 11 million in public hospitals, ranging in private hospitals from 35 -270 million. That is the minimum price is three times higher in private clinics than they do in public hospitals, while the maximum is 26 times bigger!
The science team, headed by the Director of the Center for Health Services Research, Associate Professor John Tounta (Mary neighbor, Kyriakos Souliotis, Olga Siskou) analyzed data of hundreds of inspections made by the Central Control Group IKA, finding extremes overpricing or wasting material.
A survey in eight private clinics, recorded that Costing of materials for angioplasty surgery in femoral and iliac arteries ranged from 7983-21880 euros while in carotid angioplasty material costs ranged from 4996-21560 euros. Clinical charged material stefaniaiografias that hospital purchased 200 euros, 474 euros. The charge for funds is huge as are 53 500 stefaniaiografies time.
In the area of orthopedics, which also is great “party” prices, the average charge of lumbar spine bone grafts was 78% higher in private clinics (6435 million) than they do in public hospitals (3616 euros).
transplants cervical spine, but the charges were greater in public hospitals, which include documents as “strange” records amounts. For example, the hospital has charged nine members materials 59.269 billion, of which 15.433 million for haemostatic and 11.737 euros antisymfitika. The cost of two low-cost materials reached 45.8% of the total amount …
«The great waste occurring in the Health Fund, stresses the” K “Mr. Tountas’ due the over-invoicing of goods and services and the uncontrolled consumption of diagnosis and treatment. That is why priority is to create a mechanism to negotiate and control to anatimologithoun many products and services and put a stop to overconsumption. To this end, should the responsibility of the Health Funds to benefit from the Ministry of Health and an analysis and assessment of all costs per Health Code. »
Ostrich is the maintenance of closed daily hospital fees at levels far below the actual cost when funds are paying exorbitant amounts for overpriced medical supplies, adds Administration Doctor of Health Services OLGA Siskou. “The initiatives of the Social Security system for streamlining should follow other funds” – the Social Security initiative of the Governor Theo Adams went to the decline of many materials, saving more than 50 million euros in 2009.
In study, expenditure on medicines in IKA period 2000 – 2009 increased by over 400% and 450% OGA and behind the numbers lies a large volume of trading virtual prescription for nonexistent illnesses, even for members who have died.
The “party” with the overpricing and uncontrolled “consumption” of diagnostic and therapeutic tools catapulted to the heights in the last decade the costs of the branches of the Health Insurance Fund. From the survey data shows that the five years 2003 – 2008 Payments Agency insured persons in government (followers) to private hospitals increased by 100%! Debts to public hospitals amounted to 700 million euros, while in recent years, the requirements of hospitals by the Agency have not yet logistikopoiithei. The Ministry of Health not only took steps to stop the skid of the costs, but in 2008 opened the way for the private sector to proceed with the installation of machinery and other medical technology, increasing demand apparently provoked.
Uncontrolled use of diagnostic and therapeutic means observed in IKA where the average number of tests per patient increased by 2.12 in 1995 to 5.81 in 2006 while raising spending Health from 1.03 billion in 1995 to 4.09 billion euros in 2008 . The Foundations, although it has the largest network of primary care in the country, has signed contracts with 2800 private laboratories and diagnostic centers, which promotes the consumption of services.
The overpricing of materials is mainly due to and increase by 176 % of the cost of special examinations, surgeries and treatment of members of the OGA in the decade 1995 – 2005.
In OAEE which insures two million artisans, traders and motorists, but pensioners who are in the field of Health IKA The average length of hospital stay decreased, but the number of paraclinical examinations from 2000 to 2008 increased by 200%.
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