Ammon News - The head of the Doctors' Cooperative Fund (DCF), Falah Tamimi, on Saturday said that previous individual contracts signed between doctors and insurance companies are now canceled according to the current bylaw of the fund.

Tamimi said in a statement that insurance providers funds have been addressed and told that they must follow the Fund's bylaw which sets out a unified contract that must be signed with the Fund's head.

He pointed out that the establishment of the Doctors' Cooperative Fund was driven by doctor's increasing need to collect their dues from insurance companies, and the right of citizens to freely choose the doctor they want.

Tamimi also said the Fund is meant to stop insurance companies' control over doctors by preventing them from establishing networks of accredited and unaccredited doctors. He further noted that the new bylaw will ensure that doctors collect their fees as per the pricing list set by the medical association.

He concluded that the bylaw is fair to patients, doctors and insurance providers and ensures an equitable distribution of services, performance, and fees and raises the level of medical care for the insured because they will not find themselves obliged to go a specific doctor.