TEMPO.CO, Jakarta-Director of Legal, Communication and Inter-Agency Relations of state's Healthcare and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan), Bayu Wahyudi, has vowed to discipline hospitals and local BPJS that commit fraud to its patients whom participants of the national health insurance agency.
“We have received reports and complaints from residents; if local BPJS or reference hospital is proven [to have committed fraud], we will discipline it,” Bayu Wahyudi said after a discussion on BPJS premium hike at the Parliament Building, Jakarta, Thursday, March 24, 2016.
Wahyudi said that in answering an inquiry on an issue that private hospitals in the Greater Jakarta area had asked their patients to pay millions of rupiah without details about the use of the money, medical service and the receipt.
According to him, such issues have been reported in several areas and BPJS central agency will seek to find out the real problem. “If local BPJS and hospitals are proven to have colluded to commit fraud, we will discipline them,” he said.
He asserted that the heaviest punishment for the hospital is severance of contract; no longer partnered with BPJS Kesehatan.
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