Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion

11:00 am

Mr. Donal Clancy:

Yes. In an effort to make that efficient, collaboratively we got together and tried to introduce electronic claims. We spent a considerable amount of money in an effort to get electronic claims going. Laya Healthcare alone spent more than €1 million trying to get the public system in particular and also some of the private ones to co-operate so that they would submit their claims electronically and get them paid faster. At this point I believe we have one private and non-acute facility operating that. I might stand corrected on that - there might be two non-acute hospitals. However, none of the main tertiary hospitals or the main private hospitals is operating that as we speak.