President of Andess (National Alliance in Defense of Ethics in Supplementary Health), doctor José Ramalho Neto criticizes the delay in setting up the (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry) that seeks to investigate abusive practices carried out by healthcare providers through medical boards.
The CPI’s request, authored by deputy Rodrigo Valadares (União Brasil-SE), was presented on July 10 last year. The document has 174 signatures, three more than the minimum required. In his justification, the parliamentarian says that operators create “administrative barriers aimed at making it difficult for patients to access health treatments.”
However, since then the president of , (Republicanos-PB), has not made any move towards installing the collegiate. Currently, there are no parliamentary commissions of inquiry operating in the House.
Ramalho states that the association seeks to address the main irregularities identified in the sector, such as the automation of coverage denials, the imposition of spending limits and the repeated omission of regulatory bodies, which generate judicialization.
“The CPI’s request for medical and supplementary health audits has already been formally filed with the Chamber of Deputies and only depends on the reading of the text by the President of the House”, he says. “The proposal gathers the support of more than 171 parliamentarians from across the political spectrum, which highlights the seriousness of the issue.”
He mentions that, currently, the debate is progressing in the Senate, where public hearings are planned.
“The idea is to expand the scope of the discussion, give national visibility to abusive practices adopted by health plan operators and present concrete cases of doctors persecuted or coerced into not prescribing the most appropriate treatments for patients, under the justification of cost containment and preservation of operators’ profits”, states the president of Andess.
According to him, the intention is to use the space in Congress to warn about the system’s actions. “Among the planned measures are the presentation of a package of bills aimed at reformulating and moralizing the sector, in addition to the assessment, already underway, of the possibility of adapting the request for a CPMI, considering the Senate as a faster alternative for installing the commission and advancing investigations”, he states.
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