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B.T. reveals: Doctors have scored the box in violation of the rules | BT Society - www.bt.dk Danish doctors have, in violation of the rules, scored the box office during the corona crisis. And now the hammer falls. B.T. can reveal that the doctors have to pay 19.5 million kroner back to the country's regions, which they have been paid by mistake. It shows a note from Danish Regions, B.T. has access to documents. In the general practitioners' organization PLO, chairman, Jørgen Skodborg, acknowledges that the doctors have "misinterpreted" an agreement and call it "an unfortunate course". According to Mickael Bech, head of research and analysis at the National Research and Analysis Center for Welfare, VIVE, the reimbursement claim probably reflects the uncertainty surrounding test results during the corona epidemic. "Throughout this corona period, there were a number of uncertainties about what to do and how to do it," he says. Specifically, the doctors have received the many millions of kroner paid out by invoicing the regions for sending test results for coronavirus to their patients. A note from the Danish Regions states that a staggering DKK 24.3 million has been paid out from June 2020 to January 2021 for e-mail responses with corona samples. According to the Danish Regions' own calculations, at least DKK 19.5 million must be repaid. Every time a doctor has sent an email with a corona response, he or she has scored 45.72 kroner at the region. This means that 539,779 emails have been sent from doctors to citizens with their email responses. According to the Danish Regions' own calculations, this is not connected. If the doctors had followed the idea of the new service, approximately 104,986 emails would have been sent. Every time a doctor has sent an email, he or she has been able to collect DKK 45.72 at the region. However, doctors should only use the service quite exceptionally, for example, if a false negative test result is suspected. Nevertheless, in the period from 9 June 2020 to 24 January 2021, the doctors have reported to the region that they will have DKK 24.3 million, which they have subsequently been paid. But now the Danish Regions assess that it is not reasonable at all, and 19.5 million kroner must be repaid. TIP B.T. Has your doctor demanded money from the regions for work they have not done? Write to B.T.'s journalist Thomas Nørmark Krog at tnkr@bt.dk. The patients can see their test results on sundhed.dk, so it is not at all necessary for the doctors to send an email with the answer and then ask the taxpayers to pay. The chairman of the General Practitioners 'Organization (PLO), Jørgen Skodborg, says that the doctors have obviously "misinterpreted" what they should do with patients' test results. He explains that at the beginning of the corona epidemic "there was considerable uncertainty" and "many decisions were made in a hurry". "In the process, we entered into a temporary agreement with the Danish Regions on test results for the patients, which we unfortunately communicated in such a way that it was misinterpreted by far too many general practitioners," says Jørgen Skodborg and adds: "We have learned a lot of this case and does not enter into such urgent agreements again, «says Jørgen Skodborg, who is chairman of the General Practitioners' Organization (PLO). "It was in every way an unfortunate course that we have learned from." As chairman of the PLO, do you not think that the general practitioners' association has failed when so many doctors have received money for services they obviously should not have ? "We have learned a lot from this case and will not enter into such urgent agreements again." B.T. has asked Danish Regions to explain how this could take place, but they have no comments. "It is an ongoing case, so we refuse to participate," says Jesper N. Jakobsen, press adviser for the Danish Regions. B.T. reveals sports disease Momondo Mondays B.T.s grades B.T.s judgment abroad Berlingske Media A / S Pilestræde 34 DK-1147 Copenhagen KTlf. +45 33 75 75 33 CVR.no .: 29 20 73 13