Extrajudicial sent by Medical Association of Athens (ISA) to the management of the National Organization for the Provision of Health Services (EOPYY) for its recent surprise decision regarding the clawback collection.

As ISA states in its relevant announcement, this decision “dramatically overturns the financial budget of health providers and leads to dispensaries, private clinics, polyclinics, diagnostic centers and physiotherapists in lockdown».

In more detail, the ISA Board of Directors, during its last meeting, ratified the decisions of the assembly of health providers, on October 3, 2024, to escalate the mobilizations and to exhaust all legal means in the claim for the abolition of the clawback and the deletion of the debts.

In this context, ISA sent today to EOPYY a letter on “Suspension of the implementation of the 208 decision of the Board of EOPYY”, pointing out, among other things, that it asked the leadership of the Ministry of Health to be informed about the pre-collection decision clawback at 65% each of the months of September, October and November 2023, gradually within nine months, with the start time of the payment to be made in September 2024 and the end time in May 2025, with a corresponding withholding for each payment month.

According to ISA, “this decision does not exist in Diaygeia and no one has access to it in order to gain knowledge of its content and its legal and substantive basis».

In addition, ISA asked the management of EOPYY, for reasons of transparency and essential information of the providers, to send it “immediately the full text of the minutes of this decision for the information of its members”.

ISA speaks of “EOPYY’s indifference”, stating that it did not respond to his request and calls on the management of EOPYY to respond immediately to his requests and without any further culpable delay. The Board of Directors of the ISA declares, moreover, that it reserves all its legal rights for the defense of the doctors who are contracted with the EOPYY.