Knowing what it takes to go through consultation, take a blood test or an operation for appendicitis is one of the measures that the Government raises through ‘bill in the shade’ to raise awareness of the expense of health and get make citizens more responsible use of the public system. That Extremadura Health Service is very clear. What does not seem to have both is the way to get that information to users.
Month ended yesterday the Minister of Health, Trinidad Jimenez, gave the deadline for implementing this measure – October – are few communities that have already made decisions and are developing experiences. Although there are.
For now, the SES is preparing a proposal he hopes a consensus with other communities before deciding how to publicize the public health costs of Extremadura. Some time ago already showed interest in developing this measure last March agreed on a Council of Interregional NHS, but in the long run because it gave priority to control spending on drugs, for which another commitment to informative bill.
Extremadura while it thinks, and there are communities that have rejected the proposal to provide such information to their patients. This is the case of Catalonia, Navarre and Husked. Others, such as Andalusia, and are carrying out pilot projects. On October 1 began operating experience in Costa del Sol Hospital in Marcella and within a year this autonomy wants all health centers and hospitals to inform the Andalusia’s, provided it presents no additional cost to the community .
More experience is the ‘bill in the shadow’ in Valencia. There has been reporting in situations of long hospitalization in years. In 2009, more than 200,000 invoices issued informative. Now, with his practice, which continues to expand, plans to introduce the bill information to the consumption of medicines in the same order?
The timing in the maximum for Health, Aragon has also begun to inform their users. The Department of Community Health has chosen a less direct stake to give information: it has posted on its website the cost of most common processes and not issued in the name of the city the price of a particular service, and may be consulted own initiative.
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