Private hospitals discriminate against users of the National Health Service in time to mark exams. The process is accelerated if the user wants to abandon the credential of the doctor and pay the entire account.
The illegality was denounced by the Association for Consumer Protection, after conducting a study in which analyzed more than 500 private health establishments throughout the country. Besides the delay in the time-marking Investigations, as echography or electrocardiograms - who pay the entire account, not just the charges, could see reduced the waiting period in more than 100 days - the prices will not are, as the law requires, prominently displayed. And in some places, the oscillation of cost for the same exam is greater than 100%. The difference can reach 260 euros.
In 180 of markings of colonoscopy exams (the exam intestine), obstetrical ultrasound and transrectal, 15 of the sites visited by employees Deco ahead of the date when they offered to forget the credential of the doctor and pay the cost. Deco's report will be published in December in protest of the magazine.
This discriminatory practice, carried out by private hospitals that have agreements with the NHS, is completely illegal, but is not entirely unknown to the Health Regulatory Authority (LRA). "This report, in the abstract, is not new. Now we have to act in some cases," said the JN, Alvaro Almeida Santos, chairman of the LRA [see text below].
The Inspector-General of Health also provides activities to be investigate complaints from users of the NHS that took longer to get a medical examination in private services. Nevertheless, source of the office of Minister of Health said the agency Lusa that the complaints from users who were brought in that inspection were "some, few," not knowing, however, specify the number.
The study provides a help Deco's: in 140 of the 180 hospitals agreed with the NHS, 140 revealed a wait of more than five days when employees attempted to arrange examinations. At least 15 of these establishments discriminating users: Lisbon, Porto and Braga lead the list.
The illegality was denounced by the Association for Consumer Protection, after conducting a study in which analyzed more than 500 private health establishments throughout the country. Besides the delay in the time-marking Investigations, as echography or electrocardiograms - who pay the entire account, not just the charges, could see reduced the waiting period in more than 100 days - the prices will not are, as the law requires, prominently displayed. And in some places, the oscillation of cost for the same exam is greater than 100%. The difference can reach 260 euros.
In 180 of markings of colonoscopy exams (the exam intestine), obstetrical ultrasound and transrectal, 15 of the sites visited by employees Deco ahead of the date when they offered to forget the credential of the doctor and pay the cost. Deco's report will be published in December in protest of the magazine.
This discriminatory practice, carried out by private hospitals that have agreements with the NHS, is completely illegal, but is not entirely unknown to the Health Regulatory Authority (LRA). "This report, in the abstract, is not new. Now we have to act in some cases," said the JN, Alvaro Almeida Santos, chairman of the LRA [see text below].
The Inspector-General of Health also provides activities to be investigate complaints from users of the NHS that took longer to get a medical examination in private services. Nevertheless, source of the office of Minister of Health said the agency Lusa that the complaints from users who were brought in that inspection were "some, few," not knowing, however, specify the number.
The study provides a help Deco's: in 140 of the 180 hospitals agreed with the NHS, 140 revealed a wait of more than five days when employees attempted to arrange examinations. At least 15 of these establishments discriminating users: Lisbon, Porto and Braga lead the list.
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