Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia- The government will continue plans to eliminate the Social Security Administering Agency (BPJS) Health class system through the Standard Inpatient Class (KRIS) program. Hospitals and BPJS Health participants will be given time to prepare to implement this policy.

National Social Security Council member Asih Eka Putri said the government had trialled this system in 14 hospitals. The result, he said, is that the implementation of KRIS must be carried out in stages. “First, the hospital welcomed it and then there needs to be stages,” said Asih when contacted, Thursday (2/11/2023).

He claimed that the implementation of KRIS would have an impact on improving the quality of inpatient treatment of BPJS Health participants in hospitals. The government, he said, has determined that there are 12 criteria that must be met by inpatient rooms in every hospital. These criteria include air quality, maintenance equipment, and minimum room temperature.

“There are regulatory guarantees for participant rights and also for obligations that must be fulfilled by hospitals which are the basis for BPJS Health to pay,” he said.

Therefore, he said, in the revision of the presidential regulation that is being prepared regarding National Health Insurance, the implementation of KRIS will be carried out in stages. The government, he said, would give hospitals time to implement these standards. The gift of time, he said, was also aimed at BPJS Health participants.

“There is adjustment time at the hospital and also from the participant’s side. So the stages are first the availability of beds and then for the participants,” he said.

However, Asih said he could not answer the impact of implementing KRIS on the amount of BPJS contributions. He said that currently the government is still simulating the impacts caused by the implementation of KRIS.

“Whether it affects the fees or not, I can’t answer yet, because we are still simulating, including the availability of sufficient funds and tariff adjustments like that,” he said.

Asih said that the implementation of KRIS is now just a matter of time. He said the implementation was just waiting for the publication of the revised Presidential Regulation Number 82 of 2018 concerning Health Insurance. “Right now we are waiting for the revision of Presidential Decree 82/2018,” he said.

The Presidential Decree, he said, will later contain procedures for inpatient care, criteria for inpatient care, quality of service and standards for inpatient rooms for BPJS participants. “So it will be more measurable later,” he said.

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