JAKARTA - The Director of Referral Health Services at the Ministry of Health, Siti Khalimah, reminded hospitals that they need discipline and cooperation in claiming the cost of treating COVID-19 patients.
"If there is an improvement in the claim document, it will be resolved immediately. Everything will be paid if the documents are complete and all received. We will pay those who deserve to be paid immediately but we really hope for cooperation from the hospital," said Siti in a written statement received at the hospital. Jakarta, Sunday, February 13th.
He added that if there are documents to be re-completed, please do so immediately so that they can process them immediately.
In 2021, the government has received handling claims of up to IDR 90.2 trillion from 1.7 million cases. Meanwhile, what has been paid until the end of December 2021 has reached IDR 62.68 trillion.
However, there are still Rp. 25.10 trillion in hospital claims that must be paid. Hospital cooperation and discipline are needed to complete claim documents from hospitals so that the government can process them immediately.
Siti also mentioned that there were claims of Rp2.42 trillion that could not be paid. The claims consisted of Rp680 billion of expired and inappropriate claims, and Rp1.74 trillion of disputes that could not be paid.
However, he reminded hospitals to immediately file a service claim in December 2021 before February 28, 2022.
"Actually, we don't differentiate between private hospitals and government hospitals. So the order in which the Rp25 trillion has not been paid is from the email sent from us by BPJS," he said.
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