The state has closed channels for leaking medical budgets. The introduction of digital control helped detect inflated claims worth billions of tenge, as well as identify about 40 clinics that received patients without a valid license, reports infohub.kz.
In particular, the Ministry of Health identified and removed 400,000 outdated patient records from medical information systems. "This prevented unjustified expenses on medical care and medicines in the amount of 31 billion tenge," the ministry said in a statement.
The Ministry noted that digital identification confirms the fact of a patient's visit and eliminates inflated claims, format-logical control checks the event before saving, and the unified payment system verifies the volume and quality of care.
"Thus, the result has become measurable. Detection of defects in payment increased 3.5 times. Unjustified consumption of services decreased by 7.1%, which is about 7 billion tenge. Overcharges of 10.6 billion tenge were identified. Only for inactive recipients of the per-capita standard, the effect amounted to 3.2 billion tenge," the statement said.
In addition, risk-based supervision through the digital resource management system made it possible to identify about 40 organizations operating without a valid license, and the activities of five have already been suspended. It also identified over 2,000 specialists with expired certificates, of whom more than 50 have been suspended from work.
Earlier it became known that the Ministry of Health transferred the entire career of medical workers to a unified digital system that will track the entire path of a specialist - from admission to a medical college to advanced training, employment, and job changes.