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Minister Presents Electronic EOPYY Health Insurance File

Greek Health Minister Makis Voridis presented an electronic Health Insurance File for each individual patient covered by Greece 's National Organization for the Provision of Healthcare Services (EOPYY), which he said would allow careful control and cross-checking of all...

Second Wave of Mobility in EOPYY and Municipalities

The government board of administrative reform discussed the continuation of the mobility program, the acceleration of the evaluation process of private legal entities, and the issue of dismissals and the creation of more than 10,000 job positions. In Specific, the...

EOPYY Doctors On 24-hour Recurring Strikes

The insurance policyholders of EOPYY, will be afflicted after the doctors' decision to proceed with 24-hour recurring strikes until Wednesday, November 27. The doctors have left open the possibility of continuing their mobilizations until further notice. The doctors, reacting to...

EOPYY Doctors On Strike

As of Monday, the EOPPY doctor’s are on a 24-hour recurrent strike. They will protest against the possible dismissals and suspensions. The consultation rooms of EOPYY will operate with security guards. The Minister of Health, Adonis Georgiadis, said that the...

EOPYY Polyclinics to Merge with Health Centers

Two years after EOPYY’s start up, the Ministry of Health is looking carefully at how it can remain viable. There are three dominant scenarios, the first of which involves transferring 6,000 employees to the National Healthcare System’s Health Centers...

EOPYY Out of Control, Inspector Says

Greece's health care insurance system EOPYY, which has a 1.2 billion euro ($1.54 billion) debt, is running amok with mismanagement, Public Administration Inspector Leandros Rakintzis, tasked with rooting out corruption and mismanagement, said, adding it's barely a legal operation. Rakintzis...

Greek Pharmacists Break Off EOPYY Talks

Theodoros Ambazoglou, head of the Greek pharmacist’s union, said he was unable to reach an agreement with the National Organization for Healthcare Provision (EOPYY) which owes pharmacists scores of millions of euros in unpaid subsidies. Greek pharmacists struck for two...

Organ Donations Rise in Greece But Still Lag Behind Rest of Europe

Greece trails behind other European countries in organ donations, the Athens Medical Association (AMA) said on Thursday, but donations are nevertheless on the rise. At an event ahead of Friday's national Organ Donation Day, the AMA speakers said that the...

Greek State Outstanding Debt to Individuals Reaches €5.05 Bln

Greek government and public sector debt to individuals rose to 5.05 billion euros in May, from 4.96 billion in April, according to figures released by the Finance Ministry. At the same time, debt to private sector suppliers and service providers...

ICAP: Private Health Services Sector Continues to Shrink in Greece

Greece's private health services market size shrank for the fourth successive year in 2016, a survey by ICAP Group SA on Private Health Services, said. In recent years, the income of private health service providers were negatively impacted by the...

Health Ministry Announces Downward Revisions for Diagnostic Tests

On Wednesday, the Greek Health Ministry announced downward revisions in the pricing of a series of diagnostic tests and other medical procedures in order to cut costs by reducing compensation paid to patients covered by state health insurance funds. In...

Greek Street Artist Adorns Cyprus' Parliament

INO is a Greek street artist who has created the most impressive and artful murals in Athens. Recently, he was invited to Cyprus to make a mural for the country's parliament in Nicosia. His works can be found in several...

State Debts to Private Sector in Greece Delay up to 4 Years

While the Greek state is pressing on debtors to repay their dues, state debts to the private sector take up to four years to be repaid, thus creating a liquidity problem in the market. Businesses wait from one to four...

Greek Gov't Taps on State Organization Fund Reserves for Liquidity

The Greek government is tapping on state organization fund reserves for liquidity, asking that the organizations transfer reserves to the Bank of Greece. The unemployment office, hospitals, the national health system fund, even the Greek parliament fund have been asked...

Number of Unvaccinated Children in Greece Rises due to Economic Crisis

The Greek branch of Doctors of the World reported in a recent press conference that more than 250,000 children in Greece do not have access to public healthcare and do not receive the necessary vaccinations. Doctors of the World general...