Additional EUR 94 million to pay for healthcare services which means more services for patients
Today, the Compulsory Health Insurance Council proposed to allocate EUR 67 million from the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund’s (CHIF) budget reserve to pay for health care services provided by health care institutions that exceed the terms of the contract. An additional EUR 27 million will be allocated from the CHIF budget.
Minister of Health Aurimas Pečkauskas emphasised that the additional funding for medical institutions is good news for patients, as medical institutions are able to provide more services than are provided for in their contracts with the Territorial Health Insurance Funds.
“We have had two years of record consultation volumes in the health system and it is still continuing. I believe that additional financial opportunities will allow medical institutions to continue to maintain the increased volumes of consultations, thus meeting the public’s expectations regarding the accessibility of health services,” said A. Pečkauskas.
In the first half of this year, compared to the same period last year, the number of outpatient personal health care services increased, especially day hospital services (15%) and day surgery and monitoring services (13% each). The number of services provided under the Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Programme increased by 63%.
“In the first half of the year, almost EUR 94 million worth of services exceeding the contractual conditions were provided,” says Tatjana Golubajeva, Deputy Director of the National Health Insurance Fund, “It is not enough to use only the funds from the budget of the National Health Insurance Fund to pay for services exceeding the contractual conditions, but also the funds from the reserve. Therefore, part of the services exceeding the contractual conditions will be paid for by the CHIF budget (EUR 27 million) and the rest by the reserve (EUR 67 million).”
T. Golubayeva notes that the aim of the payment for outpatient services is to encourage medical institutions to provide outpatient, day hospital and day surgery services. The increasing number of these services exceeding contractual obligations shows that most of the services needed by patients can be provided in non-hospital settings.
In addition, the need to fund disease prevention programmes has increased dramatically this year, which is why an additional EUR 15 million has been allocated from the CHIF reserve for the Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Programme. The increase in funding for this programme is due to the extension of the age limits for screening and the updating of the screening criteria last year.
The additional funds will allow better access to healthcare, to better meet the growing needs of patients and to further strengthen the health system.
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Last updated: 17-09-2024
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