“Psychiatrists refuse to conclude contracts with healthcare insurers’ – NU.nl

"Psychiatrists refuse to conclude contracts with healthcare insurers' – NU.nl

This was reported by Volkskrant on Monday.

The psychiatrists and therapists do this mostly because they do not want to be tied to a maximum number of treatments. The many rules were imposed by insurers to ensure that psychiatrists do not let contract.

Therapists would get to hear what treatments they may or may not carry out the insurers. The effects of treatments performed would be measured by the insurers.

Privacy

Most psychiatrists and therapists say that the privacy of their patients can not be ensured in that way. They put the advice on treatment, therefore, not on the account. Thus, the insurer can not check the effects and effectiveness of the treatment.

Many psychiatrists and therapists put their patients also as an alternative

to the bill itself. “The doctor has his patient keep his mouth against everyone,” says psychiatrist Mengelberg website devrijepsych.nl, an association for psychiatrists.

Control

The insurers say the accounts indeed to control. “We check whether a referral was the GP and whether the treatment would have been effective,” as late Dienke Hedemann, Manager at Menzis know.

In the eyes of the insurer is required. “We have to. We have to see to the fact ordered that the money is legitimate and efficient way. That requires supervisor NZA of us,” concluded Hedemann.

Through : NU.nl