Law requires that plans cover vasectomy and tubal enter into force
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Health plans are required to pay for family planning.
Text was published in the Official Gazette on Tuesday.
The law requires health plans to cover procedures for family planning is already in place. Among the procedures that may be covered are the surgery vasectomy and tubal ligation and implantation of the IUD. The text, approved by the Senate in April, was published on Tuesday (12) of the Official Gazette, after sanction of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Now, who wants to make an assisted fertilization, for example, will be without coverage from private plans. About a year, the National Agency for Supplementary Health coverage for established procedures of contraception, but until the publication of the law, there were no rules in case design methods.
You are also provided emergency care for injury or complications during pregnancy, as well as emergency cases in which the patient is at risk to life or irreparable injury, a declaration by the doctor.
In practice
The president of the company that brings together health plans, Arlindo de Almeida, acknowledged two months ago, when the bill passed the Senate, there are still difficulties in the implementation of the list. Still considered the approved project redundant.
Already the National Agency of Supplemental Health said the new law will be an instrument of consumer protection. "As the law also family planning activities, it does nothing more than legitimize already taken the initiative of the National Agency of Supplemental Health. It conveys to society and the industry itself that you will be able to have so family planning activities borne by your health plan, "said Eduardo Sales, director of the NSA surveillance, the project's approval by the Senate.
The sanction of the project can help people as a civil servant Rogério Oliveira Souza, who has health insurance. When he decided to vasectomy, had to pay out of pocket. "The vasectomy was $ 700. The doctor gave me a discount because the table is $ 1,000, "he said.
"Family planning will now be covered as a whole. Previously, the only contraception. For example, the use of IUDs, sterilization, a vasectomy. Now the conception as well, ie, fertilization, fertility of the woman or man will be protected by insurance, "said Senator Serys Slhessarenko (PT-MT), who was rapporteur of the project.
Source: G1
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