Ghost visits and "black" reimbursements for services in RSA or at home, demanding ones made to employees using the portal of the national health system, antedated recipes: the Pandora's box emerged from the sweep checks of the Carabinieri of the Nas throughout Italy - with 1,838 inspections - which is counterbalanced (fortunately), a good health that emerges however, from the majority of controls, with a "correct provision of services to their clients". Only two medical practices have been suspended in the whole boot, and in most cases, these are "administrative non-conformities".
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308 cases of criminal and administrative irregularities The military carried out checks in almost two thousand clinics and medical offices, under the sights of the Nas family doctors and pediatricians, the irregularities - so in the statement of the Carabinieri - were found in 308 cases, both administrative
and criminal, with 251 findings in terms of "non-compliance" (equal to about 14%).
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The "Ghost visits" to patients
referred to the judicial authority 51 - including doctors and administrative figures - among these, 3 doctors are held responsible for having falsely certified, to the territorial health authority, the execution of visits and services at home or at nursing homes (in respect of their borrowers), results in reality never carried out. Ghost visits, from which, however, they would have unduly received "reimbursement of the declared benefits".
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Secretaries who make prescriptions, and prescriptions "antedated"
At two medical offices, the Nas of Catania has discovered the drafting of medical prescriptions - through the online portal of the national health system - performed by secretarial collaborators: this in the absence of the doctors in charge of the studies. In Perugia, a doctor who prescribed drugs with "false indications of the date" was referred to.
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Medical offices suspended in Catania and Reggio During the control campaign, two medical offices in the province of Catania and Reggio
Calabria were suspended for "lack of habitability and preparation of other unauthorized medical activities": the most frequent non-conformities - write the Nas - "equal to 65% of the violations contested, concerned hygienic-structural deficiencies of the environments intended for visits, such as the presence of equipment unsuitable for medical use, use of rooms other than those declared or without sufficient ventilation".
Expired
drugs The controls also resulted in a total seizure of more than 650 packs of expired drugs. At two clinics in Puglia, the respective doctors held dozens of packs of medicines without a sticker, "whose destination is being ascertained to ascertain any purposes related to the illicit reimbursement of drugs to the detriment of the public health service".
In the province of Trento, on the other hand, a doctor was referred for having held 50 packs of medicines, even partially used, with an expiration date exceeded.