Minister of Health: PBI Inactive will be Reactivated Automatically in 3 Months

SEMARANG - Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said that the participation of BPJS Kesehatan in the segment of recipients of contribution assistance (PBI) who had been deactivated would be automatically reactivated within three months.

"All people who have PBI and then are canceled will be automatically reactivated centrally from the center for three months," he said at the Kariadi Semarang General Hospital, Tuesday, February 10, reported by ANTARA.

According to him, the reactivation period is valid for three months while updating and verifying participant data.

"Because in these three months it will really be checked. Later by Dinsos, by BPJS, also by the local government. Is the person concerned really a PBI category or not?" he said.

He said the government wanted to ensure that PBI was given to the right target to the people who really needed it.

"Because this PBI we want to give to the poor people and there is a quota. If you have a house with an electricity bill of Rp. 2,200, it's not PBI. If you have a credit card with a limit of Rp. 25,000,000, it's not suitable for PBI," he said.

Through this mechanism, he said, the public does not need to take care of the re-administration independently because it is reactivated automatically.

"So, you don't have to go anywhere, it will automatically be active again. But this activity is three months," he said.

During those three months, he said, participants with catastrophic illnesses still received the health services they needed.

Catastrophic disease is a serious chronic disease that is life-threatening, requires long-term/intensive medical care, and is very expensive.

"All catastrophic diseases, blood transfusions, chemotherapy, thalassemia, those are diseases that if the service is stopped, they can die, it is automatically reactivated from the center," he said.

He said the number of participants who would be reactivated was still in the final reconciliation stage, but it was estimated that the number would be around 110,000-120,000 participants.

"The number we saw yesterday is being reconciled, the last one is in the range of 110-120,000," he said.

He emphasized that the government ensured that the cost of health services was guaranteed and would be paid by BPJS during the reactivation process.

"Later it will be paid by BPJS because we have agreed that the government through the Ministry of Social Affairs will pay BPJS for this automatically reactivated," he said.

In addition, BPJS Kesehatan also has time to carry out socialization to the public who are affected by the change in membership status so that the transition process runs smoothly.