“No private health unit can ask for money from insured for benefits that are not provided for by their contract with EOPYY” Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis said in response to a timely question by SYRIZA MP Vassilis Kokkalis about patient complaints about “unfair and illegal charges against EOPYY insured persons from private health structures.

Mr Georgiadis emphasized that “if a private health unit asks EOPYY’s patient more money than they are provided with the contract they have, this is a reason to terminate the contract”.

The Minister in particular said that “private diagnostic centers, all they can charge is 15% of the patient’s participation on the state invoice, one euro at the entry of the insured and three euros for imaging examinations and nothing else”.

The minister noted that for private hospitals in the new Government Gazette, which will soon be issued “anything not included in the contract with EOPYY and charged is a reason to terminate the contract. For any other service they are permitted by contract, but is not compensated by EOPYY, it should be posted at a central point of the entrance, in a central position on their site and the patient has been informed of the cost of such benefit. If the citizen has not been informed of this charge, then the citizen is entitled not to pay it. “

Mr. Georgiadis also referred to the preventive medicine tests for cardiological and brain illnesses, saying that “we have sent 5.2 million memories to equal beneficiaries. All fellow citizens over 35 are entitled to free blood tests this year. Use this free program by registering with the system that has come to your mobile. It is a shame to take free blood tests and citizens go to pay them out of their pocket »

The minister asked citizens to denounce unfair and such illegal practices and through the electronic aids that exist, and said that there would be a relevant possibility of complaint and monitoring.

SYRIZA MP Vassilis Kokkalis, for his part, called for the intensification of the checks, pointing out that private diagnostic centers and clinics involve various reasons, such as out -of -date examinations, to make arbitrary charges by EOPYS.