Some are trying to close the wounds of GESY, competent bodies and the Government - following the instructions of the President of the Republic to the Health Insurance Agency for the preparation of a timetable for the implementation of control mechanisms to combat abuses in the system - but at the same time the unbridgeable financial difference of 150 million between the Health Insurance Agency and the Ministries of Health and Finance remains unbridgeable.
In particular, the Ministry of Health claims the above amount from OAS for nominal medicines and services - such as the transfer of patients abroad or to private hospitals - which do not fall within its remit, while the organisation claims the contributions
(EUR 103 million) owed by the State to the GESY fund. It is recalled that the Ministry of Finance did not proceed with the payment of the share of contributions owed by the State to the GHS fund, indicating that these services are currently covered by the Ministry of Health, but according to legislation, they must be recovered from the global budget of the System.
Focus of meeting on the issue
The whole issue will be put before a meeting that the Ministers of Health and Finance will have next Monday[/B] with representatives of the Health Insurance Organisation, with the two sides preparing to put their cards on the table in order to resolve their financial dispute before the confrontation goes to extremes.
For its part, the OAS, argues that the law is clear and that in order to charge the SHI fund for drugs, there is a predetermined procedure that is applied by competent committees until the drug is included in the system's list. Therefore, since these drugs are not included in the GHS list, the OAH is arguing that the System should not pay these costs, even though the Ministry of Health believes they should be included in the list.
In short, the OAH is not willing to pay out of the System's fund for drugs and services that it did not approve.
A relevant source pointed out to the Cyprus[/B] Times that any criticism of the non-inclusion of certain drugs in the GHS list would be understandable, but in any case, the law does not provide for the state's contribution to the System's fund to be cut off.
Difficult to bridge the disagreement
According to information from the Cyprus Times[/B], the scenario of the two sides coming to terms on this financial disagreement is considered far from easy, as the approaches of the two sides are far apart. Already the Board of Directors of OAY has made a first assessment of the situation in the past few days and has given the signal to the representatives of the Agency participating in the meeting to exhaust all possibilities in order to find a solution, given that in 10 days the timetable set expires.
We understand that, if not, the Board of Directors of the Agency will meet next Tuesday or Wednesday and it is possible that they may even decide to take countermeasures in order to claim the State's contributions to the YESY fund.
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