The announcement of an amendment for the pharmaceutical expenditure was announced in advance the Minister of Health at the end of the article-by-article discussion of the draft law “Doctor for all, equal and quality access to the services of the National Organization for the Provision of Health Services and to Primary Health Care and other provisions” in the Committee on Social Affairs.
The minister stated that Considers tabling an amendment to “add an extra ‘rebate’ to non-generic medicines, that is, the existing polynomial will change, in categories of drugs that create a very large cost to EOPYY as there will be a closed budget for drugs of categories 1A and 1B, with their consolidation. At the same time, for the very cheap hospital medicines, there will be a “clown-back” ceiling “.
For provisions concerning EOPYY the minister stated that there should be control over the costs of providers at source because there you can reduce the cost incurred, in the quality of services and with prescription indicators as well as if an effort has been made to reduce the cost over the past ten years, the truth is that we have not been able to reduce it. The mechanisms of “rebate” or “close-up” or increased participation, does not mean that this cost does not exist. But in order to compensate everything and to have quality services, you need to have controls, quality indicators and quantitative “rebates” and so the money of the insured takes place. He stated that we believe very much in price negotiations with providers and we want them and it is a dynamic, useful and transparent process for EOPYY and we must ask for bigger discounts. Today, said Mr. Plevris, to a large extent the State does not receive the discounts it can get and in this sense a part of the “clown – back”, is a part largely unfair but also has a part of it that The state should have taken care to get it at a discount.
Regarding the composition of the Board of EOPYY, the minister stated that will consider what was heard from MEPs in the committee and will be placed in the second reading of the bill on Monday. He stressed, however, that the interest of the insured remains and this is the best services at the best prices. EOPYY is not to redistribute the money of the insured with a balance as imagined by the providers. It is not a social task of the Organization to regulate the market or to weigh the capabilities of the providers. He said that the development “clown-back” is a good idea but it still needs work to be done.
The minister, for the Personal Physician and the criticism leveled by the opposition for the participation of specialist doctors, he stated that the reality is that today as a country we have few general practitioners and many more specialist doctors. So while we do not have many GPs, you are looking to find a model that will fill the gap so that the institution does not fail again.
For afternoon surgeriesthe minister said that eif we want them to exist in the NSS, we will necessarily talk about patient participation. Because you have to find funds for salaries. And If EOPYY pays 100% for an afternoon surgery, then in fact the Organization will pay more money than it pays for a private unit.
Earlier, a majority of the deputies of the ND parliamentary group passed the draft law on the Authority. SYRIZA, KKE and MERA25 voted against it, while KINAL and Hellenic Solution were reserved to be placed in the Plenary.
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