Compulsory health insurance council approved the allocation of funds to Increase medic salaries
Compulsory health insurance council approved the increase of funding for healthcare services. This decision was adopted in order to ensure a consistent increase in the salaries of medical staff, reported the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) under the Ministry of Health.
The Council decided that as of 1 November the basic prices of the healthcare services should increase. This purpose will receive an additional 22.7 million euro from the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund (CHIF). The majority of these funds will constitute CHIF budget funds, while the rest will come from the CHIF reserve.
‘These funds will enable a factual increase in the salaries of the staff, working at healthcare facilities. These facilities will start receiving additional funds already in January next year, thus they will have more funds for settling with their employees for already this month.’ says Simona Adamkevičiūtė, Director of the Department of Economics at NHIF.
The highest coefficient of the price increase (more than 7%) is planned for the payment of services provided under disease prevention programs, emergency health care consultations, primary outpatient personal health care and emergency medical assistance services.
The service price increase coefficient was calculated based on the data on the costs required to provide the services, provided by health care facilities, as well as after evaluating the 2023 draft budget data.
According to Adamkevičiūtė, the Economic Development Scenario, published by the Ministry of Finances in September 2022, indicates an increase in the average wages (gross) by 8 per cent. In order to ensure an equivalent percentage for healthcare staff starting the beginning of the next year, it was suggested to increase the basic prices for healthcare services one more time this year.
A consistent funding for the next year would be guaranteed by funds from CHIF budget and risk management share from its reserve.
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Last updated: 16-01-2023
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