The information is advanced by the newspaper Expresso, which said the decision was taken in 2020 with the objective of Increase state financing to the hospital.
Additional surgeries at Santa Maria Hospital were asked to doctors by the Board of Directors. The information is advanced by the newspaper what is the point that the decision was made in 2020.
The goal was Increase state financing to the hospital.
Until then, surgeries performed by the dermatology service were not paid as surgeries. They happened during the consultations and therefore counted as exams.
This meant that the hospital received from the state, through the financing of the NHS, the payment of an exam and not an operationand doctors received only the salary.
In 2020, the administration required teams to codify these procedures as outpatient surgeries And, therefore, the amount paid by the state to the hospital increased.
About a year later, dermatologists were also asked to start surgeries outside normal hours to reduce waiting lists with incentives paid by the government: 53% for the team and the rest for the unit, says the Express.
The Express also says that were the dermatologists themselves to alert the administration for the high values of some operations.
