TV magazine “Kassensturz” reports that Swiss disability insurances will no longer delegate expert assessments to the infamous company “PMEDA” that for many years was notorious for making money by claiming that disabled people are healthy:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U4yvONag-0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U4yvONag-0)
According to a [press release](https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/medienmitteilungen.msg-id-98053.html), the Federal Comission for Quality in Medical Assessments has (after many years of inactivity) audited a random sample of PMEDA assessments and found the vast majority of them to have “severe formal and contentual errors”. Because of this they advised the disability insurances to no longer delegate assessments to PMEDA.
Yet many disabled people in Switzerland have been denied payments (or only granted minor payments) due to legally valid rulings that were based on those useless assessments. For some this horror has been going on for 10 years and they have only little chances to get their decisions revised even if those decisions were based on assessments of the apparent Fake-Assessment-Company PMEDA.
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However there is one somewhat bright spot:
One victim of PMEDA was smart enough to make a hidden recording of his assessment interview with the PMEDA doctor. With this recording he seems to be able to prove that the doctor blatantly lied in his assessment about the interview and the tests that have been done. The victim therefore has pressed criminal charges against the fake-assessor. Of course the public prosecutor wanted to drop the case (doing their job generally doesn’t seem to be a priority for public prosecutors in Switzerland, as I know from personal experience) but the high court of the canton of Zurich has now decided that the public prosecutor has to investigate the case. (It’s of course a shame that as a victim you not only have to go to court against the offenders but also against public prosecutors who don’t want to investigate against the offenders… but it is what it is.)
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^(Of course there is “presumed innocence” when it comes to the alleged fake assessors and the suspicion that they based their business model on the suffering of disabled persons.)
by b00nish