Consell de Govern this Monday, Health care Hiring an external company to collect the bills of delinquent tourists treated in hospitals or health centers of the islands for having an accident or suffer from any pathology during their holidays in the archipelago.
80% of unpaid bills belong to citizens residing in Turkey. EU that they will not provide data from European health cards or provide some erroneous data the rest can be attributed to non-community visitors.
Among the first, most guilty nations logically corresponding to the largest number of tourists from countries visiting the Balearic Islands, England is followed by Germany, France and Italy. By contrast, visitors from outside the EU who are most reluctant to pay their debts United States of America Y Argentina.
The estimated value of this contract is 2,367,625 Euros. Some calculations by IB-Salut with real data and a projection, this year 2022, It estimates that in the 2019/2022 four-year period, uncollectible invoices for assistance to community and non-community tourists amounted to 7,398,831 euros.
a) Yes, 2,379 invoices were not collected in 2019 worth 1,787,997 Euros; In 2020, the first year of the pandemic, uncollectible bills dropped to 887, almost a third, all representing 1,353,551 euros.
His health improved and last year the number of unpaid bills doubled (1,749), for which a total of 2,257,281 euros remained unpaid.
Servei de Salut was extremely cautious, estimating that only 1,600 aid to foreigners would be stopped for a total of 2m euros for this year, which is expected to break all tourist records for this archipelago.
They explained from the Servei de Salut that in this way invoices can be issued to tourists who do not have the data to do so by the normal means, as they would only give their name, country of origin or phone number.
The external company that won the tender, which will have a base bid budget of 1.43 million and will increase to 2.3 million for a possible twelve-month extension, will have to find these community tourists to collect your data. send it to the compensation fund.
This central government compensation fund collects all bills of health care provided to visitors from the European Union by all Autonomous Communities and claims them from different Member States.
Spaniards with health problems in their home country will face these demands after their health systems stop helping them.
And non-EU tourists in default must be personally claimed by the external company for their debt in the absence of a bilateral agreement between their country and Spain.
Servei de Salut estimates that these uncollectible bills represent close to three million euros of underfunding.
Source: Informacion
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