Four employees of the public
health system in Cosenza have been reported to Italy's Audit
Court, suspected of causing 4.7 million euros in damages for not
collecting payments from patients in the city's emergency rooms
between 2011-2014, finance police said on Monday.
Patients triaged as code white or code green - low-urgency
visits - are required to pay between 25 and 45 euros.
However, finance police said their investigation revealed
that in 150,000 cases no payment was collected.
Police said the code white and code green patients were
admitted to the ER using a handwritten record-keeping system,
despite the fact that a specific computer program had been
purchased for the purpose.
Therefore, details about their ER visits weren't accurately
recorded and payments weren't collected, finance police said.
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