By Gary Culliton. Eight Limerick TDs — four from Fianna Fáil and four from Fine Gael — met Vhi boss Jimmy Tolan last November to ask him to extend health insurance cover to the Limerick co-location hospital, Beacon Medical Group CEO Michael Cullen has claimed. Beacon has spent more than €30 million already on its [...]
By Gary Culliton gary.culliton@imt.ie Cash collected in respect of private patients in public hospital beds is scheduled to rise by one fifth next year. It is estimated that moving to full cost recovery for private treatment in public hospitals would involve an increase of about €93 million. The 2011 increase will recover an additional €75 [...]
By Lloyd Mudiwa lloyd.mudiwa@imt.ie An analysis and review by the NTPF of waiting-time data provided by hospitals (44) in 2010 found that nearly one-third of patients waiting for more than nine months were doing so because they needed to be scheduled for treatment in their own hospital either for clinical reasons or because they had [...]
Cash collected in respect of private patients in public hospital beds is scheduled to rise by one-fifth next year. It is estimated that moving to full cost recovery for private treatment in public hospitals would involve an increase of about €93 million. The 2011 increase will recover an additional €75 million and the balance – [...]
Major difficulties for the health service are feared if the HSE bills patients directly in cases where a consultant has not signed an insurance claim-form within 30 days of a discharge. The HSE is also considering limitations on consultant admission rights if there is no improvement by doctors in the time it take them to [...]
A revised fee offer from Vhi Healthcare to consultants will involve a fee cut of 10 per cent on average, the health insurer has stated. Vhi’s current agreement with individual consultants is due to expire on June 30, with a new two-year agreement to be offered to consultants from July 1. The health insurer will [...]
Two companies are understood to have informed the Department of Health that they wish to take over Vhi Healthcare, Irish Medical Times has learned. The Government hopes to have details of new legislation on community rating available shortly. This would involve a scheme of risk equalisation, based not just on age and gender but also [...]
The Health Insurance Authority (HIA) has released the findings of a national survey of the private health insurance market in Ireland, which shows the market has declined by 2.3 per cent in 15 months. There has been an increase in the number of lapsed policyholders compared to a similar survey carried out in 2007, from [...]
Alarming breaches of the private practice provisions of the consultant contract are revealed in a new report seen by IMT. The figures show that many consultants are in gross breach of their contracts with the HSE. The HSE report reveals records of public and private work performed by consultants in November 2009. The new consultant [...]
The charge for a private bed in a Category 1 hospital has rocketed from €274.52 per day in 2002 to €910 per day in 2009, a new report shows. However, if the average cost is applied, increases ranging from a 15 per cent increase in the charge for a Category 1 private bed to a [...]
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