Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam

2:00 pm

Professor Eva Pajkrt:

Those companies are bankrupt because they had to pay back a lot of money related to billing. We do not know what happened and the matter is under investigation. I have no more data than the Deputy or what has been printed in newspapers.

The only thing I know is that a couple of those clinics have to close and it is putting an enormous stress on all the other ones. We are seeing that. One could say it is an industry in that there is what is called up-billing. The practitioner gets a certain amount of money for a certain procedure. I have listed all the procedures. This is what I think and it is an assumption; one procedure is a bit more expensive than the other one and they said they did A while they were doing B. It has nothing to do with their professionalism or how they were doing it. There is no malpractice there.

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