Consumer understands costly hospital not for short-term interventions – Focus on News

Friday 12 June 2015 – 19:27 Update: 14-06-2015 13:43

Cost incomprehensible

“This is a good development, but at the same time consumers can not sympathize with incomprehensible high costs for small, brief interventions,” the Consumers’ Association.

The Consumer advocates, therefore, following the National Ombudsman, for which there is a different billing system for small operations with real rates

The Service & amp.; Advice and the hotline of the Consumer give consumers the costs of minor operations are inexplicably high. Bart Combée, Director Consumer Association: “The National Ombudsman pays special attention to the high cost of minor surgery and we want our appeal once more to emphasize how much is needed is a change in the system. Consumers pick it not that they have to pay for one-time visits to the hospital or for small operations towering amounts. We therefore express the Dutch Healthcare Authority (NZA) on the heart to change it.