Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 June 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 21 - Budget Management in Health Service Executive
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards
12:50 pm
Mr. Stephen Mulvany:
It is not. In the Chairman's example, he provides a service and issues an invoice straight away. The service the statutory charge covers is effectively the overnight accommodation in the hospital. When one leaves the hospital, we have the capacity to issue the bill straight away but are prevented from doing so because the insurer will not accept it until we provide a whole lot of additional information largely unrelated to what the actual charge is seeking to collect. Then, once they receive it-----
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