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The CMD will continue to disaffiliate ARS to force migration to Senasa Sen茅n Caba said that the next ones would be the six ARS that make up Adimars The ARS that make up Adimars are ARS APS, ARS Asemap, ARS Futuro, ARS Renacer, ARS Metasalud and ARS GMA Claudia Fernandez Santo Domingo - Oct. 21, 2022 | 12:01 AM m. | 6 min read
聽 The president of the Medical Association, Sen茅n Caba. (DIARIO LIBRE/KEVIN RIVAS) The president of the Dominican Medical College, Sen茅n Caba, affirmed yesterday, Thursday, that the CMD's plan to fight against the ARS will include the disaffiliation of the six entities that make up the Dominican Association of Equal Medical & Health Risk Administrators. Health (Adimars). 鈥淎ndeclip has just been integrated. They are also going to disaffiliate not only from the Universal ARS, they are going to disaffiliate from the small ARS, Adimars as they are called鈥�, said the doctor when making an appearance at the seminar 鈥淧ast, present and future of Family Health Insurance鈥� , organized by the Alliance for the Right to Health (Adesa). The ARS that make up Adimars are ARS APS, ARS Asemap, ARS Futuro, ARS Renacer, ARS Metasalud and ARS GMA. Caba stressed that before the ARS, 鈥渨e understood each other well, members and doctors. There was a medical equal and you paid for a consultation, but at this moment, how do you attend to a patient for 350 pesos? People say that one is a usurer, an abuser, but how do I maintain a practice if it is not like that, 鈥漲uestioned the president of the doctors. He emphasized that the ARS 鈥渁re not doctors, nor are they patients. What do they do in this concert between doctors and patients? They came to mediate, but not only to mediate. Of the resources that are invested in health, which until now are close to 700 billion pesos, they have won everything鈥�. Of the 45 billion pesos that are invested in medicines, Caba maintained that the ARS barely contributes 5 billion, 'people buy the rest out of their own pockets.' 鈥淧roviders invest a lot of money in offices, secretary, security, fuel and the payment they receive per patient is the same since 2015 (RD$360.00); while the ARS have risen with 188% of the increase to the capita鈥�, he added. Sen茅n called on members to 'empower themselves, take to the streets with us for another model of Social Security, more based on your rights, without abuses for us providers.' Non-negotiable points Caba highlighted two main points where the doctors are not willing to give in at the dialogue table: the basic health plan and the assignment of codes to doctors. 鈥淲e believe that the time has come for the ARS to cover a basic plan for illnesses. The basic plan began to mutilate since the Family Health Insurance was created in 2007, leaving people with fewer and fewer illnesses and procedures within the coverage鈥�, assured the doctor. Regarding the assignment of codes, he said that 'we are not going to negotiate in any way, let the Government and the ARS know, who certifies a doctor to practice.' And the affiliates? The coordinator of the Social Security commission of the Dominican Medical Association, Fulgencio Severino, understands that the practical solution for members is to migrate to another ARS. 鈥淲hat the member has to do is transfer to another ARS. The National Council of Social Security (CNSS) that quickly approves that they go to an ARS until the conflict with Universal is resolved and Universal pays the other ARS鈥�, he stated. 鈥淲e are going to continue until everyone reaches the National Health Insurance (Senasa)鈥�, he added.
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