Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards
12:40 pm
Mr. Patrick Burke:
We process 80 million transaction items of service. The primary care contractors we have contracted with provide services to those 3.8 million clients.
The total cost of that service in terms of assessing people's eligibility for free or co-funded health services, managing the contracts with premier care contractors and reimbursing contractors for services provided is approximately €22 million or €23 million. That is out of an overall budget of €2.4 billion, so it is 1%.