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The state-owned Health Care and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) is planning to use a facial recognition technology to identify millions of its policyholders and to prevent fraud in the National Health Insurance (JKN) system.
As the number of health claims rise, industry analysts are urging insurers and hospitals to review their risk-sharing schemes to avoid transferring the burden from the former to the latter, among other measures.
Coinciding with World Health Day, the Healthcare and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) has announced that close to 270 million people, nearly the country’s whole population, have been enrolled in the National Health Insurance (JKN) program.
Analysts have urged finalizing the prolonged discussions over a Coordination of Benefits (COB) scheme, which they say will reduce public-private competition and ultimately help the government toward achieving its universal health coverage goal, alleviate risk for private insurers as well as ensure better health benefits for all.
The government is working to implement new categories of inpatient coverage for National Health Insurance (JKN) in 2022, as part of its efforts to restructure benefits for policyholders and ensure the deficit-stricken program’s sustainability.
The Jakarta Post’s Riska Rahman and Prima Wirayani talked with Allianz Indonesia country manager and CEO Joos Louwerier via Zoom in late July to discuss how the pandemic has affected the insurance industry.
