Healthcare in the United States

Two medical diagnostic clinics in the northern port city of Thessaloniki charged insured clients unauthorized extra fees for tests prescribed by their doctors, an investigation revealed on Thursday.

Koper – In Saturday’s commentary headlined Patients Not the Only Ones to Be Blamed for Waiting Times, the newspaper Primorske Novice says that the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) is also to be blamed for long waiting times, having done nothing to ensure a single system of referrals registration at national level.

Ljubljana – The government and trade unions have reached a deal to raise wages for nursing staff in health care and social care under which some 80% of the staff will see their wages rise by 4-24%, Delo says on Saturday. It fears, however, that higher wages will translate into higher bills for care services paid by care home residents.

The information was revealed by former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb

As of 10:00 a.m. on 31 December, the National Revenue Agency temporarily suspended payments via virtual POS terminal, the agency reminds. Two hours later, it will also be impossible to pay via POS at the office of the revenue agency, and the reason is the change in the operation of the information systems. The inconvenience for citizens will be until January 10.

But there will be fewer of them, because tens of thousands of Americans who could have been saved will die, writes the American magazine Atlantic.

A change in legislation last April has given access to the public health system to some 2.5 million Greeks who did not have social insurance but has also put a financial strain on hospitals, whose funding has not increased.

The Turkish government has announced a 50 percent increase in the on-duty fees paid to health personnel, along with other measures to improve working conditions, just a day before national Doctor?s Day and shortly before the June general elections.

BELGRADE - Electronic services and applications used in healthcare should be linked up into an integrated information system, and that job could for the most part be completed by the end of the year, according to what was said at a conference on Wednesday, entitled Towards the E-Health Agenda for Serbia.

A 50-year-old employee of a hospice for people with chronic illnesses in Drama, northeastern Greece, was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of embezzling 170,000 euros from the state-funded care facility.

Authorities said that after failing to cover up her actions, the employee admitted taking the money.