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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: It is to address the issue the Deputy has raised. This is why it reads as it does. A relevant contract provides health insurance cover for not more than 66% of the full cost of hospital charges in a private hospital, or not more than the prescribed minimum payment within the meaning of the Health Insurance Act 1994 (Minimum Benefit) Regulations 1996, whichever is the greater. Any other...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I thank the Deputy. I appreciate it. It is good to know Deputy Ó Caoláin is on the ball and keeping me on my toes.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 5: In page 8, line 38, after "stay" to insert ", on or after 31 March 2013,".Following consultation with insurers I have decided to commence the new risk equalisation rates from 31 March 2013. This is reflected in amendments Nos. 5 and 6. This period will provide a very useful window of time to insurers to trade into the new scheme. A hospital stay incurred under...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 6: In page 8, line 42, to delete "1 January" and substitute "31 March".

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 7: In page 8, between lines 44 and 45, to insert the following:" 'non-advanced cover' shall be construed in accordance with section 11E(4);".

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 8: In page 9, to delete lines 6 and 7 and substitute the following:" 'private hospital accommodation' means--(a) accommodation in a private hospital, whether or not in a bed, or (b) accommodation in a publicly funded hospital in a bed which is designated, pursuant to Article (8)(i) of the Health Services (In-Patient) Regulations 1991 (S.I. No. 135 of 1991), as a...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I beg the Deputy's indulgence and ask him to wait until we reach section 13 when this matter will be dealt with comprehensively. The €75 per day rate provided for would not encourage any insurer to have a patient in a bed, but as I said, I will deal with this matter in a more comprehensive fashion when we reach section 13.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: No, there is nothing specific in the Bill in that regard. People can raise such concerns with the Health Insurance Authority. They should, in the first instance, take up the matter with their insurer which should have an interest in keeping tabs on what is going on and keeping down the cost to its clients. I do not believe there is a necessity for the creation of a new agency or organisation.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: Is the Chairman and the Deputy saying the insurance companies are not taking action?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: Perhaps we might explore the engagement of a subsection on the Health Insurance Authority in this regard.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I could not agree more and it is welcome that the committee has taken up this point. I hope the issue will receive an airing in the media. People should be prepared to contact their insurers when they believe they have paid health care providers for treatments they did not receive or for additional days during which they were not in hospital. I am sure the insurers do not wish to pay out...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 9: In page 10, paragraph (a)(i), line 42, to delete " "90" " and substitute " "60" ".My priority is implementation of a robust risk equalisation scheme, while minimising the impact on an insurer's ability to carry on its business. However, in response to market proliferation of products - I mentioned that while the figure provided in this regard was €200 plus, in...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I believe the Deputy is missing the fact that a person's reward is in their cover, which is why 47% of the population have such cover. However, the issue has been raised. If we were moving to universal health insurance, I would certainly be aggressively pursuing the issue with insurers. Is it fair that somebody in their 50s takes out insurance and gets the same rate as somebody else the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: A number of issues must be considered. First, if UHI is in place in four years, and we intend that will be the case, it will be mandatory, as Deputy Kelleher is always keen to point out. Therefore, the need for incentives does not arise. Second, in the short timeframe that is available, it is difficult to see how we could do it, but we will examine it. Third, it would not be possible to...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 11: In page 11, to delete lines 13 to 48 and in page 12, to delete lines 1 to 42 and substitute the following:“ “7AB.--(1) A registered undertaking shall not offer in the State a new type of health insurance contract (and regardless of whether the contract is already offered outside the State by the undertaking or any other person) unless it has submitted a...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 12: In page 14, line 50, to delete "the Table" and substitute "Table 2".I have agreed the rates for risk equalisation credits in respect of hospital bed utilisation credit of €75 in respect of a hospital stay involving an overnight stay in a hospital bed in private hospital accommodation by an insured person where the insured person is such a person under a health...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: This relates to the amount of premium to be paid from the fund in respect of certain classes of insured persons based on age and sex of insured persons and their type of insurance cover on the date the contract is effected, and the amount applicable from the period from and including 1 January 2013 to and including 30 March 2013. The schedule has been given to the members. These are the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: That is correct.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: Yes, Table 2 in Schedule 4.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: Yes.