BPJS Leaking Money
The government is raising informal workers’ Health Care and Social Security Agency (BPKS Kesehatan) premiums by almost 100 percent to cover the astonishing BPJS deficit of Rp15.5 trillion last year. Besides the increased premiums amid the Covid-19 pandemic, which have made it difficult for many customers to keep paying them, there seems to be holes in the national health insurance’s services—from disordered patient data, fraud by hospitals, to doctors opting for the most expensive procedures due to the lack of guidelines for patient care. If these blunders are fixed, the BPJS stands to save Rp47.59 trillion annually of the around Rp100 trillion claims payment.
Tempo
June 9, 2020
HADI Siswanto was disheartened when he went to the Dr. Soeradji Tirtonegoro Central General Hospital in Klaten, Central Java, for dialysis treatment on May 2. The 35-year-old man had been coming to the hospital twice a week for eight months for dialysis due to his kidney failure. That day, he was confounded at the patient registration desk, when the hospital staff forbade him from entering the treatment room.
The hospital employee explained
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