The Spending Efficiency and Governmental Projects Authority has introduced health insurance for government employees for two new categories, represented by “vvip” and “vip.” The first category is concerned with senior administrative positions, leaders and consultants, and the second category is concerned with middle administrative positions, and specialized, technical, support and support positions.
The terms and conditions of the framework agreement for the developed health insurance, which was approved by the Minister of Finance and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Authority, Muhammad Al-Jadaan, include adding the advantage of compensable expenses, and adding the option of health insurance for unskilled jobs for non-Saudi workers.
The amendments included raising the annual limit for parents to 500,000 riyals, and canceling prior approval. With regard to pricing the insurance cost, the amendments included reducing the time period for receiving quotations to 7 days, pricing using the unified price for insurance categories instead of pricing by age groups, adding indicators to measure the performance of contractors, developing a schedule of fines, and adding periodic performance reports to monitor the performance of insurance policies in a way better.
The amendments disclosed that work is underway with the National Center for Government Resources Systems to add an electronic market for health insurance on the “Etimad” platform, to enable government agencies to offer closed competition between the parties to the framework agreement, issue purchase orders, delete and add, and end the procedures for contractors’ entitlements.
The schedule of benefits included that the total annual limit of the policy is 500,000 riyals, and treatment outside the Kingdom is allowed from the document for the first 50,000 riyals spent abroad, and what exceeds those expenses is calculated according to the prevailing prices for service providers in Saudi Arabia.
The circular was sent to 138 government agencies, represented by “ministeries, agencies, universities, government institutions, government hospitals, government centers, research and fatwas, and specialized cities”, in addition to many other agencies.