Working
in the health care field increasingly implies supporting one's professional
knowledge with a series of financial, managerial and insurance information.
Thus the outlay of funds and the waste of energies necessary to solve problems
lying outside those related to medicine and health care represent extra
work for the professional involving many duties and an unpleasant waste
of time. Running a medical office, or a private health care facility, is
an extremely demanding task.
In
order to ease such burden, Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura (BNA) developed
a new scheme of bank services for doctors and health care facilities: the
KOS System.
The
KOS System is a new and different way to cope with the complex and articulated
situation of the health care. Studies carried out on it led BNA to develop
an integrated system of products that make it possible for doctors, health
care facilities and health care workers to choose and benefit from specific
options.
The
KOS System has been created to simplify all managerial and directional
operations, to resort to the most advanced methods for saving, financing
and personally managing one's account. Many services are free while others
have very limited costs, involve few formalities and are incredibly fast
and easy to carry out with the relative advantages in terms of efficiency.
Services
for doctors
The
scheme developed for doctors was studied in order to ease professionals
from troublesome managerial duties.
It
offers, in fact, financial support for professional and family projects
enhancing the assets administration through an integrated series of services
pertaining payments, investment and financing.
The
advantages provided are manifold:
immediate
settlement of credits from Insurance Companies for services to insured
patients;
advance
of credits from the Local Health Care Centres;
payment,
in a continuative way, of levies, taxes and utility bills;
financing
to apply for professional refresher training with a facilitated rate of
discount and in a short period of time;
financing
professional start-up costs with a facilitated rate of discount and in
a short period of time;
financing
the purchase or the restructuring of premises on particularly favourable
conditions;
opening
the special “KOS Account” that guarantees a large number of services that
are completely free or have very low costs;
personalised
management of liquid assets through assets administration, common funds,
investments in Lira or other currencies, purchase of certificates of deposits
and government securities on the best market conditions;
the
“Scala Reale” card, a special card that makes it possible to withdraw cash
and to buy in Italy as well as abroad at the facilities and machines having
an agreement with the Bancomat, PagoBancomat, Cirrus and Maestro circuits,
to pay motorway tolls and to make international phone calls at discounted
rates. Further information and details are shown in the table.
Services
for private health
care
facilities
BNA's
KOS System can provide all private health care facilities with professional
consulting and the ideal services to tackle this field's problems both
from a financial as well as managerial and insurance points of view.
The
KOS System can help you simplify and harmonise your current management's
activities, finance your projects, enhance the financial management.
You
will benefit from:
immediate
settlement of credits from Insurance Companies for services to insured
patients;
advance
of credits from the Local Health Care Centres;
payment,
in a continuative way, of levies, taxes and utility bills;
a
service account to manage and pay invoices issued from suppliers by using
a special credit line;
speaking
in real time with BNA through computers connected with the Bank's network
in order to carry out directly many operations on the current account and
to order collections and payments;
management
of liquid assets through assets administration, common funds, investments
in Lira and other currencies, purchase of certificates of deposits and
government securities on the best market conditions;
financing
projects to purchase, widen or restructure real estates, to purchase technical
equipment and advanced technology even by leasing;
all
the major personal and corporate credit cards that can be used in Italy
and abroad, such as CartaSi in its various types: basic, ORO, Business;
prime
rate financing to customers for services provided by the facility itself;
installing
automatic collection systems such as POS for payments with credit cards
and PagoBancomat;
installing
Bancomat automatic teller machines in premises having a suitable size.
Services
for health care workers
The
KOS System intends to enhance savings by providing families with free insurance
coverage, easing every-day responsibilities and making it possible to carry
out projects at limited rates.
The
proposed current account gives a large number of services and products
that are either free or provided on special conditions.
The
free services and products are:
cheque-books;
Securities
safe custody rights;
payment
of utility bills with direct debit on the current account;
a
legal liability policy for the home- owner (in case the salary or
the pension are entered to the credit of the current account and at least
a utility bill is automatically debited);
Besides
all this, a series of further benefits are provided, including a special
accident policy against death and disablement, the use of a safe-deposit
box, the “Scala Reale” card, the CartaSi credit card, an overdraft with
a two months' salary at limited rates, the possibility of having access
to the “Finanzafamiglia” financing that makes it possible to restore immediately
the credit and to use it again.
The
range of services provided by the KOS System is really wide and allows
professionals to choose from the most interesting ones according to their
professional, family and investment prospects.
A
scheme devoted to those who can understand the value of a co-ordinated
management of single problems.
Within
this context, the name BNA chose for its service is certainly not casual
and the reference goes beyond medicine.
Kos,
the Aegean's island, Hippocrates' birthplace and the seat of a medicine
school at the Asclepius' sanctuary, expresses, in fact, a precise concept:
being a complete set of services allowing health care professionals to
be totally autonomous from a managerial and financial standpoint.
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