SNS lacks mechanism to update amounts paid to private providers for exams

A new study reveals that the National Health Service (SNS) has no regular, systematic method for updating the prices it pays private clinics for diagnostic and therapeutic exams (MCDTs). Seven specialties, including physical medicine and rehabilitation, have seen no price adjustments since 2014, with others like clinical analysis seeing only modest changes. The study proposes a new methodology to address these pricing issues, noting that current updates are reactive, sporadic, and fail to account for regional cost differences.