300 million riyals of uncollected revenue for "treatment for"

The Ministry of Health revealed that there were 300 million riyals of uncollected earnings not collected in the "Treatment for Payment" program for fiscal year 2017.

In a financial report, he explained that he was aiming at a turnover of 739 million riyals during the fiscal year, which allowed him to realize 570 million riyals, moreover 300 million unrecovered cumulative business figure.

The report, which focused on processing services, did not explain why these amounts were not recovered and whether these amounts were recorded as bad debts or even to those that owed them.

During the same fiscal year, the Ministry of Health said to have been able to achieve a number of achievements, including the accreditation of 147 hospitals of the Health Insurance Council, the signing of 27 contracts with health insurance companies, a contract with the General Organization of Social Insurance and the application of the electronic program. Financial transactions in the number of health facilities "447" and increase health facilities in which the application of health services from "330" institutions to "460", an increase of "39% ".

She pointed out that she had been working to update the health services price index by coding most of the "ICD10" services and to increase the number of investment activities in health departments and institutions from "209" investments to "271", an increase of "30%", as well as the number of beneficiaries of the paid training program. , "60" thousand trainees.

The ministry has organized numerous training courses and workshops in some areas, in addition to organizing field visits to train employees of the autonomous resource departments in health departments and institutions, as well as to identify deviations and evaluation mechanisms where the number of trained employees is "4120".

About three years ago, the Ministry of Health adopted a new payment mechanism for health services in primary health care centers, which was disseminated to district directorates and applied to health services for residents and to cases not benefiting from treatment eligibility.

This mechanism has a significant positive impact on the primary health care sector in terms of income, service development and residents of centers and villages not served by hospitals, which currently have access to primary health care services through their health insurance card. , Surveys and other services.