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The Ministry of Economy, through the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, plans to implement, as of November 3, a pilot project to carry out online medical examinations throughout Brazil. The goal is to shorten the queue of sickness benefit which already has around 790 thousand people awaiting examination.
Due to the pandemic, Social Security agencies have been closed since March and reopened in September with partial assistance. According to data from INSSSo far less than 10,000 surveys have been conducted in the country.
The online medical expertise proposal responds to a request from the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU), which ordered Social Security and INSS to prepare a remote survey plan, with the intention of resolving the benefit queue. The project is expected to inaugurate a pilot experiment, which will run until December 31, with the participation of companies interested in being part of the program.
How will the online medical experience unfold?
The expert examination will be carried out entirely remotely, and will only be valid for the granting of sickness benefit, which is aid for temporary disability for work. At the time of the forensic examination, in addition to the insured, the occupational doctor hired by the company and the Social Security medical expert must be present.
Known as medical experience with the use of telemedicine, the exam cannot be performed to confer the following benefits:
- extension of help for temporary disability;
- conversion of aid for temporary disability into retirement for permanent disability or assistance due to accident and professional rehabilitation.
Medical experts are against the measure
Medical experts have objected to the measure of online medical expertise. According to the National Association of Medical Experts (ANMP) the resolution is an “illegal and unethical lure” and said it was a “theater to dismantle a career”. They also stated that the Federal Council of Medicine (CFM) prohibits the practice.
In turn, the National Association of Occupational Medicine (Anamt) says that the measure goes against the Code of Ethics of the category, since the occupational doctor is the worker’s assistant and cannot carry out an expert opinion.
“Occupational physicians […] they must provide assistance to the health of the worker and not participate in medical expertise in the terms indicated, since the crime against the Code of Ethics and the laws in force in the country is flagrant, “the association declared.
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