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Dh500 fine if you don't renew your Dubai health insurance

Dubai - DHA has called on individual sponsors and company owners in Dubai to renew the health insurance of their employees.

Fourteen clinics and pharmacies were fined between Dh20,000 to Dh60,000 for violating and trying to manipulate Dubai's mandatory health insurance law. According to the Dubai Health Authority (DHA), most of the violations were recorded during surprise inspections conducted by the authority's health funding department. Others were recorded during action taken based on complaints.
Dr Haidar Al Yousef, director of the health funding department, said nine clinics were fined for conducting unnecessary medical tests and manipulating financial statements. Five pharmacies were for fined for deliberately disbursing more medication than what's needed, disbursing medication that is not needed and manipulating medical prescriptions.
Meanwhile, the DHA has called on individual sponsors and company owners in Dubai to renew the health insurance of their employees and dependents to avoid any fines.
Dr Al Yousef said sponsors and company owners who violate the Dubai insurance law by not renewing their employees' and dependents' insurance every year will be fined Dh500 per person per month. He said the fine will be deducted automatically via the electronic system at the time of renewing of the visa.
The Dubai Health Insurance Law No 11 of 2013 was adopted under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. 
According to the law that came into effect in January 2014, it is the legal liability for every sponsor to provide an essential insurance package - fixed between Dh550 and Dh700.
So far, more than 4 million Dubai residents are covered under the insurance scheme.
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