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Brasilia - The National Agency for Supplementary Health (ANS) published this week legislative resolution that ensures the mobility of users individual plans and family health. Therefore, they can change the operator without complying with new grace period to make consultations, surgeries and other medical procedures. The standard of portability is worth the 90 days after publication, scheduled for Friday.
Currently, operators can establish (as the Law 9656 of 3 June 1998) period of two years to provide care for preexisting illnesses and injuries, 300 days to 180 days for delivery and consultations, surgeries and hospitalizations - for urgent and emergency, the shortage may not exceed 24 hours.
In the assessment of the president of the Brazilian Association of Medical Group (Abramge), Arlindo Almeida, which represents operators of health plans, the measure is "appropriate" and will generate "healthy competition" between the operators.
- Companies will have to unfold to offer better service and better prices and thereby retain customers - he said.
The Deputy Assistant Secretary of Consumer Rights of the State of Rio de Janeiro, José Teixeira Fernandes, considered the resolution of the NSA a "big step" because, he says, "the shortage was a trick that served to tie the customer to the health plan .
Fernandes warned, however, that the users of the health plans must consider the cost-benefit ratio when changing operator:
- Consumers should not be attentive to the price and must remember to care.
Source: Official Extra
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