This week, the Department of Health submitted a proposed regulation to the physician, nurse and technical assistant unions that aims to change the impact of certain team performance index (IDE) scores of new family health care providers on physician pay. medical workers. As of this Saturday, JNOne of the new proposals is that doctors who exceed the limit on prescribing tests and drugs will receive less.
This is because physician salaries in new family medicine departments include base salary, bonuses, and performance compensation (where the Team Performance Index comes into play).
ABOUT Newspaper explains that although IDE indicators related to prescribing of medications and treatments, avoidable hospitalization rates, and health care provider responsiveness to requests for urgent consultations (same day consultations) were already weighted 40% of the general assessment, they first appear in connection with the salaries of medical workers.
How much will wages be reduced?
For general and family medicine doctors, the maximum compensation for IDE-related work is €2,860 per month. For nurses this drops to €460 and technical assistants receive a maximum of €147 compared to IDEs.
According to JNTrade unions say the change could reduce users’ trust in family doctors and have submitted counterproposals to the Ministry of Health.
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