Clipping of news on Brazilian Culture, Law and Citizenship
01/22/2013
This article was translated by an automatic translation system, and was therefore not reviewed by people.
Procon-SP manifests against charging fees
by monitoring attendance of labor.
In November 2012, the Federal Council of Medicine (CFM) issued an opinion authorizing the charging of fees for doctors to monitor attendance of labor to consumers of health plans. In response to Procon-SP Foundation presented the National Health Agency (ANS) stance on CFM.
Foundation for the lack of professional delivery assistance by accompanying the pregnant women at antenatal period is questionable, both from an ethical standpoint, as professional responsibility. The recovery undermines the principle of dignity and vulnerability of consumers. Medicine and medical care should not be used as a means of obtaining economic advantage to the detriment of the patient - in this specific case, the woman, who is in a situation of extreme vulnerability of many orders (technical, physical, psychological, etc.).
Regarding the double billing, CFM claims not to be characterized in this situation because the doctor does not receive honorary operator for conducting health delivery. However, operators must ensure beneficiary access to services and procedures defined in the List of Procedures and Health Events in the ANS, which is included in the procedure of childbirth. Thus, professionals (physicians) who do not receive the transfer values should charge operators, who may even be denounced with the ANS.
Another critical and abusive found the advice relates to the Term of Consent (IC). The only plausible situation for the use of the term, would be the conclusion of a contract fee for the particular service, if the patient has no health care plan. The class body still shows wrong information that the operator does not provide health care to pregnant women the right to choose the physician who will perform the delivery.
For the Foundation, although it is fair to claim for better working conditions for the doctors, the problem should be solved between physicians and health insurance providers, the consumer can not be the aggrieved party in this relationship. Finally, it is the NSA curb such practice within the health plan operators, since it is for the regulatory oversight of the private health care market.
Source: PROCON-SP Foundation
Our news are removed entirely from the sites of our partners. For this reason, we can not change their content even in cases of typos.
This article was translated by an automatic translation system, and was therefore not reviewed by people.