HIO fines three doctors €11,500 over GHS billing breaches

Cyprus’s Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) fined three doctors a total of €11,500 last month after inspections found they had acted outside GHS regulations, and in some cases outside medically indicated guidelines, in prescribing and billing for patients under the General Health System (GHS).

The cases involved an endocrinologist and a nephrologist accused of over-prescribing hormone replacement medication to GHS beneficiaries, and an orthopaedic surgeon who sought reimbursement for...