Eureka Medical & Bougainvillea Clinic cash in over $50M in 5 years from NHI
Minister for Health and Social Development Hon Vincent O. Wheatley (R9) was replying to a question from Opposition Member Hon Stacy M. Mather (AL) during the Twentieth Sitting of the First Session of the Fifth House of Assembly on October 18, 2024.
“Madam Speaker, given the ongoing concerns about the quality and cost of healthcare across the Territory, could the Minister for Health and Social Development, please tell this Honourable House the names and cumulative amounts paid to the top five local healthcare partners through the National Health Insurance (NHI) from January 2019 to January 2024?” Hon Mather asked.
Over $80M paid out
In reply to Hon Mather, Hon Wheatley disclosed that for the period the amounts paid out were, “Provider number one, thirty million, six hundred forty-six thousand, three hundred and fifty-four dollars and seventy-nine cents; number 2, twenty-one million, two hundred and ninety-seven thousand, four hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy-four cents; number three, eighteen million, four hundred and eighty thousand, nine hundred and forty-four dollars and eleven cents; number four, eleven million, one hundred and four thousand, three hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirty-one cents and number five, ten million, eight hundred and fifty thousand, one hundred and seventy dollars and fifty-one cents.”
This brings the total payout to just the top five local healthcare partners to eighty-one million, sixty-four thousand, five hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifty cents.
Eureka & Bougainvillea clinics rake in over $50M from NHI in 5 years
While Hon Wheatley did not disclose the names of the top five companies during the HoA sitting, sources have confirmed to Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) that Eureka Medical Clinic and Bougainvillea Clinic were the clinics that received payments of thirty million, six hundred forty-six thousand, three hundred and fifty-four dollars and seventy-nine cents and twenty-one million, two hundred and ninety-seven thousand, four hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy-four cents respectively over the five-year period.
The other companies rounding off the top five were B & F Medical Clinic, Penn Medical Clinic and Premier Dental.
Meanwhile, Hon Wheatley said the government is looking closely at finding ways to curb this type of spending.
“There are several strategies we are employing to attack just that problem...looking at the way we do accounting, we do billing and the way the legislation works between the HSA through the contrast committee and the private sector, so things are afoot to address that very real concern because we know healthcare is very, very expensive.”
The Health Minister added that if the healthcare is handled poorly and price control gets out of hand it can create a “serious problems”.
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80 Responses to “Eureka Medical & Bougainvillea Clinic cash in over $50M in 5 years from NHI”
No patriotism at all. No conscience. Let’s get what we can while we can and to hell with the financial health of the country.
I cry for my country. It is late but some measures can be put in place before NHI is declared brain dead.
Now we have the Nigerians scamming NHI. They aren't online, they live and work amongst us. It is said that NHI is investigating, hope they follow through. Everyone is looking to get rich off NHI.
MRI at tge hospital co pay is 60 usd.. medicure is 650 !!!!
Use the hospital. Private health care will kill NHi. They use it like their own bank account. Shocking !!!
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Eureka & Bougainvillea clinics rake in over $50M from NHI in 5 years
Eureka & Bougainvillea clinics rake in over $50M from NHI in 5 years
EXACTLY HOW Dr. ********. set it up! CRIMINOLOGY in different form. You can educate a human to the highest degree but you can't make them a HONEST GOOD PERSON.
It should be only acceptable at gov. Clinics, with a referral to a specialist if the illness warrants it.
The public is abusing the system as much as the private providers are.
Imagine what a few million of effective investment into the public health system would do for everyone and how much it would save annually.
Clearly the private clinic funding cannot continue.
Every time you go to the doctor they prescribe pills you have to buy from a "pharmacy" and say they know not about natural herbs. I asked a doctor how much the visit cost if NHI wont cover it on the chance my card malfunctions they say they dont concern themself with that. The lot of them are happy.
We really blame a few hustlers for the state of the country when all this corporate theft is occurring and they steal from everyone of us as NHI comes out of our pay automatically...
For $80 million we could build a new hospital and staff a advanced clinc on VG JVD & Anegada 24/7 year round.
The attitude of they are in to make money is sick, leave that to the lawyers not a doctor who is supposed to heal the community.
Let everyone over charge the owners & board members for their necessities and see how they handle it.
you want food, clothes, child care, shipping and handling, courier service... $100 thousand a unit or do it yourself that would fix our problem real quick. Either that or jail them for price gouging.
Make it a law and all the police need to do is go in the records and see what they charged before NHI and compare to what they charge after NHI, simple.
The rich becoming billionaires from NHI while the poor is dying in the Hospital for lack of care