Kazakhstan's Ministry of Health has announced the prevention of unjustified expenses of medical organizations totaling 30 billion tenge, reports infohub.kz.
During an audit of medical information systems, 400,000 outdated patient cards were identified and removed. This prevented unjustified spending on medical care and medicines amounting to 31 billion tenge.
The ministry emphasized that a comprehensive chain of reliability has been established, from patient visits to payments to medical organizations. The unified repository serves as a single source of data, digital identification confirms the fact of a patient's visit and eliminates false registrations, and format-logical control checks the event before saving. 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 percent, 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," the ministry noted.
In addition, about 40 organizations operating without a valid license were identified, and the activities of five of them were suspended. The new system for the first time made it possible to identify more than 2,000 specialists with expired certificates, of which more than 50 were suspended from work.