The Hospital Owners’ Syndicate demanded that the price of $68 be set for a dialysis session, following the adoption of a new pricing mechanism for the medical supplies required for this treatment. According to the Syndicate, the price of $62 set by the Ministry of Health for a dialysis session is not sufficient to cover the new expenses.
In a press release issued on Wednesday, October 4, the Syndicate called on the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) “to modify its pricing for the dialysis sessions and apply the tarrif set by the Ministry of Health on September 1, as failure to do so would prevent it from providing dialysis to patients without imposing additional costs.”
It also stressed the need for “old invoices to be paid immediately by all guarantors, and for new invoices, issued since September 2023, to be paid within a period not exceeding one month so that hospitals can, in turn, pay the sums owed to importers.”
It added that “invoice payments must be deposited into an account in fresh Lebanese pounds.”
The Syndicate also thanked caretaker Minister of Health, Firas Abiad, and the Chairman of the Parliamentary Health Committee, Bilal Abdallah, for their efforts to settle “hospital payments related to dialysis and to obtain sufficient funds to cover patients’ bills since the beginning of 2023.”
