Montero raises its offer to Muface suppliers: raises premiums by 8% and extends the concert to three years

The Ministry of Finance and Public Function has decided to increase its offer to incorporate health providers to the next Muface concert. As EL ESPAÑOL-Invertia announced exclusively, at first María Jesús Montero’s team had put on the table an increase in premiums of 6.8% to seduce insurers. But, faced with the rejection of the companies, you have decided to increase your proposition.

Specifically, the Treasury and Public Function has decided to offer a 8% premium increase, that is, more than one point above the last proposal. And it is not the only change.

In order to give more stability to suppliers, the duration of the concert will be three years instead of two, as usual. Of course: in exchange for this, insurers will have to assume all the risks generated in the care by the Covid and the possible cost overruns.

But providers refuse to accept these conditions. They consider that they are thrown into a deficit situation and have warned the Ministry that there will have to be a new proposal for insurers to join Muface’s concert.

Faced with this situation, and as this media has learned, the department of Montero has decided to rethink its offer and is preparing a new proposal.

Far from Iceta

The truth is that these figures are still far from the approach that the current Minister of Culture and Head of Public Function left on the table of Finance before the government crisis this summer.

Iceta had considered raising Muface’s budget by 11%, taking the duration of the concert to three years, the same duration has just been proposed by the Treasury.

With the double digits offered, the former heads of Public Function wanted to compensate the companies participating in Muface for the ‘extra’ costs that they had been assuming by the Covid.

In Spain, the population covered by administrative mutualism reaches 1.8 million people. Of this amount, 60% are mutualists of Muface, whose concert (which expires at the end of the year) is maintained with Asisa, Adeslas, DKV and Igualatorio de Cantabria.

Saving

A recent report from Institute for the Development and Integration of Healthcare (IDIS) estimates that this type of mutual allow significant savings for the Administration. Specifically, each mutual ‘costs’ the State 451 euros less than if it were treated in public health. This represents a cost cut of 33% per patient and a total annual savings estimated at around 800 million euros.

Last week, United We can presented a non-law proposal in Congress in which it calls for the suppression of Muface and that their mutualists come to be cared for in public health. A measure whose effect would not only be the loss of the aforementioned savings, but also that public centers would increase waiting lists already overflowing due to the delays generated by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Added to this are the effects that this measure would have on the private health sector. According to IDIS calculations, between 30 and 32 private health centers would close and up to 39,000 jobs would be destroyed. Due to these closings, the State would lose up to 33 million euros in Corporation Tax.

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