Head of the Medical System: Debts of insurers to medical centers have reached such a level that medical activity has become difficult

Head of the Medical System: Debts of insurers to medical centers have reached such a level that medical activity has become difficult

🔸The head of Iran’s medical system said on Tuesday, September 10, that long delays in the payment of the debts of insurer organizations to medical centers have made the continued provision of medical services “difficult,” criticizing the issue.

🔸Mohammad Raeeszadeh, in a speech, urged the heads of the three branches of the Islamic Republic to “resolve the problem of accumulated claims of the medical community from insurer organizations once and for all.”

🔸He added: “The volume of these arrears has reached a point where continuing to work has become difficult for some parts of the medical community.”

🔸Raeeszadeh also reported that the payment of claims to medical centers by insurers has sometimes been delayed by up to one year.

🔸Iran’s health system has faced, for years, the problem of late receipt of its claims from insurer organizations.

🔸Last week, the head of the Iranian Pharmacists’ Association announced that the amount of insurers’ debt to private pharmacies has reached “77 trillion tomans.”

🔸Mohammad Mehdi Nassehi, the CEO of the Iranian Health Insurance Organization, also said at the beginning of September 1, at a press conference with journalists, that the organization has “about 90 trillion tomans” in outstanding debts with its contracting centers since last year.

🔸He stated that the necessary resources for payment to Health Insurance have not yet been allocated, and “as a result, we have delays in payment.”

🔸IRNA, the Islamic Republic News Agency, reported on September 7 in a story that the sharp growth in medical costs alongside insufficient financial resources has put the country’s health system in a “serious squeeze,” leading to an increase in insurers’ debts and “pressure to pay out of people’s own pockets.”