Private medical insurers could be heading for a full scale conflict with medical practitioners as doctors' leaders are increasingly targeting providers' fee schedules.
The British Medical Association (BMA) has revealed it is urging the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to have fee schedules investigated in its review of the private healthcare market. Its move follows calls from other bodies representing medical staff for the practice of fixing payment levels to medical staff by insurers to be examined. The BMA has said it will respond to an OFT consultation on the scope of the investigation by calling for insurers' fees to be examined. It has already written to the Office asking it to investigate the fees that insurers insist consultants charge if the...
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