{"id":5711,"date":"2026-05-15T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5711"},"modified":"2026-05-15T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:24:00","slug":"eopyy-sweeping-controls-and-zero-tolerance-to-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5711","title":{"rendered":"EOPYY: sweeping controls and “zero tolerance to fraud”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Health Service Organization welcomes the dismantling of a fraud involving sham physical therapies.<\/p>\n

The National Health Service)<\/b> welcomes the totally successful<\/b> operation of the Directorate of Financial Police<\/b>, which led to the full investigation<\/b> of the case and the disposal<\/b> of criminal organization <\/b>which acted methodically, committing systematic and criminal fraud<\/b> against the Organization.<\/p>\n

During the investigation of the case there was substantial cooperation between the control mechanisms<\/b> and the members of the Financial Police for the unmasking<\/b> of the illegal action of the ring. Through the thorough cross-checking<\/b> of data and the mapping<\/b> of the action of those involved, all the necessary evidence was provided to the private authorities<\/b>.<\/p>\n

As stated in a statement by EOPY<\/b>, the Agency, as part of its ongoing effort to ensure<\/b> the legality, transparency and protection of the rights<\/b> of insured persons, has moved to mandatory<\/b> execution of opinions with use of an OTP<\/b> (One Time Password) code for a range of benefits<\/b> health <\/b>and services, including physical therapies.<\/p>\n

The application of the OTP code,<\/b> which is sent to the beneficiary’s mobile phone<\/b>, is intended to confirm the physical presence of the insured person when receiving the service or health material, essentially strengthening the control mechanisms and prevention of abusive or fictitious performances.<\/p>\n

During the analysis of statistical data on the execution of opinions using OTP,<\/b>the competent services of the EOPYY identified cases of multiple executions of opinions<\/b> in different MCIs<\/b> using the same mobile phone number.<\/b> These findings were immediately evaluated and forwarded to the Financial Police Directorate for further investigation.<\/p>\n

The cooperation of the EOPYY <\/b>with the competent auditing and law enforcement authorities contributed decisively to the unraveling of a fraud scheme<\/b> involving virtual physical therapies,<\/b> protecting both the resources of the Agency and the rights of the actual beneficiaries of health services.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the EOPYY proceeded to further fix <\/b>the opinion system. As of February 2025,<\/b> the issuance of opinions requires the existence of a certified mobile phone number, which is first searched in the Health Insurance File (HIF) and then in the National Contact Registry.<\/b> In the absence of a certified number, no new opinion, other than the first informative one, may be issued, through which the beneficiary is requested to complete the certification of his\/her contact details.<\/p>\n

The management of the Agency makes it clear in all directions that “phenomena of corruption, fraud and waste of public money will be treated with zero tolerance”.<\/b><\/p>\n

It pledges to continue with undiminished intensity its sweeping controls at all levels, <\/b>continuously upgrading its digital<\/b> tools and remaining in constant cooperation with the judiciary and prosecuting authorities to defend the public interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Organisation for the Provision of Health Services (EOPYY) welcomes the dismantling of a fraud scheme involving sham physical therapies.The National Organisation for the Provision of Health Services (EOPYY) …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}