Health insurance company UVIT is investigating a potential major fraud by pharmacists whom it suspects of claiming money for different medicines than the ones actually given to patients, Trouw reports on Monday.

The investigation centres on four drugs: one antibiotic, two blood pressure medicines and an anti-depressant.
The cost benefit to pharmacists is limited, the paper says. ‘But this is all about trust,’ said UVIT spokesman Jan Broeren. ‘Health insurers have to be sure that pharmacists are delivering the medicine they claim to be.’
UVIT is an alliance of the Univé and VGZ-IZA-Trias insurance companies, with over four million policy holders.
The paper says minutes of a meeting between pharmacists, health insurers and health ministry officials quote UVIT director Martin Bontje as claiming ‘two-thirds of pharmacists are making fraudulent declarations’.