Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 May 2025
Public Accounts Committee
National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion
2:00 am
Ms Lucy Nugent:
Yes, indeed. We were 98.5% compliant with our private health insurance claims, but €250,000 is a significant amount of money, which I fully accept. The invoices were raised in a timely fashion. However, we are reliant on a fully collated submission to go into the private health insurers. There was a delay in some of the third parties providing that information. That is across the continuum of care of the patients' episodes, so it would include laboratories, diagnostics and additional consultations. That arose. I am pleased to say that, in 2024, we were able to recoup €400,000 of rejected claims. It is an area of focus for my colleague in the finance department.
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