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The Minister of Health, Hamad Hassan, pointed out that there is a manipulation of the operation codes; a bogus surgery bill; the registration of patients who benefit from the services of insurance companies at the expense of the Ministry of Health and a hospitalization allowance on both sides; an invoice for “formative” radiographic images not attached to your results; Record bogus lab tests and manipulation of the number of days a patient stays in the hospital; place fake patients and sue instead of “staying” days in the hospital, without essentially crossing their doors; stealing some managers from government hospitals on the periphery of the diesel to heat, forcing patients to bring their “warmth” with them. He noted that these and many other examples revealed by scrutiny of bills submitted by hospitals, government and private, to the Ministry of Health, which oversaw suspicions of systematic looting of public money while reviewing the files of “ministry patients”, that is, those who do not benefit from any health coverage provided by the other guarantors. The cost of their hospitalization and treatment is at the expense of “health”. They are examples of waste and corruption in health in the hospital sector, “reflecting a mafia mind that belittles the mind of the ministry and the state at the same time,” according to the Minister of Health, who canceled last April 21, the contract signed with the Al-Mashreq Hospital and suspended the observer doctor’s contract and forwarded the file to prosecution. The fiscal year with retroactive effect on all the institution’s invoices.
Hamad revealed in a press interview that “one of the private hospitals intends to manipulate the operation codes” codes “and falsify the surgical work to double the cost”, while other hospitals have “almost constant medical consultations … there are, for example, 270 files for patients in a month, all of them include an examination carried out by the doctor himself. ” There are also patient files indicating that they were admitted to the hospital for three days, while it was discovered that they only stayed for one day. The ministry’s audit unit also found that several patients were only conducting laboratory tests at the hospital, at a time when their files included their hospital stay for five days. In some cases, there are files indicating that the patient undergoes a large number of laboratory tests and radiographic images, without attaching their results to the file, and upon verification it was discovered that these tests were not originally performed. Interestingly, the staff at the audit unit, trying to communicate with patients to confirm the nature of the treatment they received, were surprised that the phone numbers of dozens of patients are incorrect.
Hamad noted that “large university hospitals with a financial ceiling of not less than three billion pounds, claiming in front of some patients that they are not contracting with the Ministry of Health, and allocates the ceiling to privileged patients.” He stressed that the audits “showed disastrous results,” and stressed that the ministry “will work to combat corruption in health by tightening control over excess financial limits.” The objective of the decision, according to Hamad, is “to stop the waste in its time and moment and not through subsequent measures.” It is part of “a healthy health and hospital strategy that protects the citizen and preserves the right of the institution without attributing suspicious charges to the Ministry of Health and public money.” He noted: “The right of the citizen to see the bill and the medical procedures implemented to which he was subject and request verification with the doctor of the ministry delegated on the bill before paying the difference. It is no longer allowed to tell the patient that the bill It has not yet been prepared as it must be ready before the patient leaves the hospital. ” “
Hamad acknowledged that “many of these are suspected of involvement and complicity, and will be transferred to the Prosecutor’s Office as soon as we begin the direct audit, which was not the case previously.”
The decision to tighten scrutiny of exceeding financial limits comes in the midst of a battle by private hospitals to recover their accumulated money in the state, which is estimated at “two billion pounds, of which only a small portion was spent” , according to the president of the Union of Private Hospital Owners, Suleiman Haroun. News “before. However, Aaron did not have to make frequent calls to find the union’s opinion on the ministerial decision.
The cost of hospitalization incurred by the Ministry of Health annually is estimated at 425 billion lire. With government hospitals exceeding the financial limits allocated to them, the cost sometimes reaches £ 500 billion, according to ministry sources.
These facts require a review of the hospital reality in Lebanon and its working mechanism, not only with the aim of rationalizing its annual cost, but also to guarantee that each citizen, hospital institution and the Ministry of Health obtain their right without any parties feel injustice.
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