The deputy director of insurance and health services of the Health Insurance Organization announced the organization's readiness to cover telemedicine insurance services in order to control social distance and stop the disease transmission cycle caused by the corona virus .
Siroos Farzin commented on the coverage of telemedicine or telemedicine health insurance: In the book Relative Values, in which all health services and care that can be collected in the country are collected, two service codes are provided under the title of non-face-to-face medical services including telephone and online evaluation. Both lack insurance coverage and must be covered by supplementary insurance .
He added: "Since last year, when the Health Insurance Organization started prescribing and electronic prescribing projects in the country, a kind of necessary infrastructure was provided to provide prescription services by doctors without the patient's physical presence. Since then, telemedicine and medicine have been discussed." From a distance, this organization was considered to some extent .
Execution of telemedicine with priority on deprived areas
The deputy head of the Health Insurance Organization continued: "Of course, the Health Insurance Organization pays attention to the issue of telemedicine, its implementation with the priority of deprived areas and places where it is not possible to access specialized doctors and with the focus on family doctors." In other words, a family doctor and a specialist doctor can use this platform to prescribe services to a patient .
Farzin said: "Since the outbreak of Quaid 19 in the country, the need to use the capacity of telemedicine to control social distance and stop the disease transmission cycle has become more important, and the Health Insurance Organization has proposed to the Minister of Health to extend the insurance coverage of these services." Provided .
Prerequisites must be approved by the Supreme Council of Health Insurance
The Deputy Minister of Insurance and Health Services of the Health Insurance Organization stated: Considering that in order to cover each new service, the initial notification of service delivery standards, leveling, strategic purchase criteria of service and tariffs in commitment is required, if these prerequisites are as soon as possible in the Supreme Council Health insurance is reviewed and approved in the presence of stakeholders, and it is possible for the organization to cover the insurance coverage of these services nationwide with full capacity .
Abdul Khaleq Keshavarzi, director general of the Ministry of Health's Office of Health Technology Evaluation, Standards and Tariffs, told IRNA's Health Reporter about telemedicine insurance coverage: And the insurance coverage of each country is very diverse and ranges from consulting services to imaging and remote reporting to comprehensive medical examinations and services. Telemedicine services, in addition to providing the right speed of service, provide fair access to services for people, and in epidemic conditions such as the coronavirus, will provide the largest service to outpatients to reduce traffic to medical centers. It also provides access to patients in deprived areas to specialists in provincial centers .
He stated: The National Headquarters for Combating Corona in May announced a decree on insurance coverage for telemedicine services and the obligation to send documents electronically until June, which will facilitate the telemedicine process .
According to Keshavarzi, the request of insurance companies in this regard is to formulate rules and standards of service and frequency of services, all service standards in the first stage, which will be announced by the end of May by the Deputy of Treatment .
Saeed Namaki, the Minister of Health, also said about the telemedicine in April of this year: "Several interesting events took place during this period." One is that the development of e-services and telemedicine and telemedicine is being organized, and we are moving towards telemedicine using the existing capacities .
"There's no reason to take a diabetic or many other people to the office every day for control," Namaki said. Telemedicine services cover many of these services, and we need to move on to prescribing and electronic prescribing .
Qassem Jan Babaei, the deputy health minister of the Ministry of Health, told IRNA's Salamat Medisin on March 30, 1997: For example, see an ultrasound and report. This is a matter for the Minister of Health, but it has not officially started yet. Because there are also issues with insurance coverage that need to be addressed. Telemedicine is one of the programs of the Ministry of Health. For example, a virtual clinic can reduce the number of people visiting in person .
Source: asre-eghtesad