first people to be given the so called ‘Shadow invoice’ by the Andalucian Health Service, which informs patients as to the cost of their treatment

scheme was launched on Monday in the Costa del Sol hospital in Marbella

The first people to be given the so called ‘Shadow invoice’ by the Andalucian Health Service, which informs patients as to the cost of their treatment, are praising the idea.

The idea is to roll out the paid already invoices across the region so that the public gets an idea of just how expensive hospital treatment really is, and the Costa del Sol Hospital in Marbella has been chosen to launch the scheme.

The first patients have welcomed the idea saying that it tells them what they are ‘spending’. Some had to read the text closely to realise the invoice had already been paid, and many were more surprised by the media interested generated in Marbella by the initiative on Monday when the Costa del Sol Hospital expected to issue 50 of the ‘facturas en la sombra’. The hospital describe it as an exercise in transparency.

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