By Gary Culliton. The VHI is not providing cover for a significant number of the beds at the new €190m St Vincent’s Private Hospital in Dublin.
Consultant payments are cut by €28 million
April 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. There was a cut of €28.6 million in the amount Vhi Healthcare paid to consultants last year, equivalent to a 15 per cent reduction per procedure. Consultants, as a body, delivered 8 per cent more care for Vhi customers in 2010, according to the company’s latest annual report. There was also a [...]
Hospitals ‘lack payment capability’
April 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Gary Culliton reports that the public hospitals must now implement a ‘money follows the patient’ system.
Department of Health to meet EU over Vhi
April 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. Officials from the Department of Health are to meet EU Commission personnel shortly to discuss Government plans for the insurance market and the future of Vhi Healthcare. The meeting will take place with the Commission’s DG Internal Market and DG Competitions divisions.
Vhi cut consultants’ fees by 15%
March 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. The Milliman report has found that Vhi Healthcare cut consultants’ fees by 15 per cent over the past two years and private hospital fees by 6 per cent.
Insurer repatriated 400 patients in 2010
March 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. Nearly 5,500 Vhi Healthcare customers required emergency medical treatment while abroad in 2010. Nearly 1,600 of these claims involved hospitalisations, and there were nearly 400 repatriations.
Limerick TDs ‘lobbied’ the Vhi on co-location
February 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Vote with your feet on Vhi
January 21, 2011 By 5 Comments
Dr Ruairi Hanley writes that following the recent price hikes, the only cure for being ‘VHI-positive’ is to switch to an alternative health insurance provider.
Vhi’s ‘free’ service a waste of money
January 20, 2011 By 1 Comment
Open letter to the CEO of Vhi Healthcare, Jimmy Tolan As a GP, I have found the process of ‘free screening’ being offered to my patients by the Vhi intensely annoying. This has generated an enormous amount of work for me — endless queries from patients, such as ‘What is the significance of a mildly [...]
An epiphany, of sorts
January 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dara Gantly follows the star in the East to record trolley figures and health insurance hikes
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