In nine months of this year, Bjelopolje dentist Sabahudin Zoronjić did not receive more than 25.000 euros from the Health Insurance Fund. After that, instead of compensation for the work, he was handed the termination of the contract, and the reason given by the Fund was - non-submission of invoices.
"I did not send invoices in electronic form, because in order to send them in electronic form in the program with the fund, I have to click on the invoice created by the Health Insurance Fund, but according to the contract, not I, but all dentists, have the right to create an invoice ourselves and issue it Fund," Zoronjić told Television Vijesti.
He explains that he did not accept the Fund's invoices because he would have agreed that his services would not be charged at the already agreed prices. Service prices are calculated by the Fund based on a point, and the value of a point is 0,95. However, the Fund changes that value without the dentist's consent, claims Zoronjić.
"I don't agree to that, I don't agree, because according to the contract, I have the right to make the invoice and send it to the Fund, and the Fund to pay me. They have the right to change the price, but they have to inform the dentists about any change in the price of the service and to ask for consent from dentists. Did they ask you for that? Never since 2013, since this system has been in place, since they designed this system. Since 2013, they have only paid me in three months at the agreed value".
The only ones whose monthly limit is not reduced are orthodontists, which, as Zoronjić says, discriminates against other dental specialists.
"The price of our dental services is very low, it is five times lower than the real market price, the price of the services is of the order of two to three euros for extraction, five to six euros for fillings, and now that they are reducing our service prices, so my price is not more five euros or six, but three euros or four euros"
Other dentists who did not want to appear on camera also spoke to Vijesti television, complaining that they have to lower the already low prices of services due to the calculation of the Health Insurance Fund.
The Health Insurance Fund did not answer TV News' questions regarding the claims of dentists, including why the financial limits for dental services have not been announced since February this year, and why dentists are the only healthcare workers who are not paid for standby.
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