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Healthcare professionals ask for higher payments
Professional, trade union and corporative organizations in health care system increased their demands for additional financing from the state budget through higher payments for state policyholders (children, unemployed, elderly). While last month the Association of Hospitals in Slovakia and Slovak Medical Union of Specialists asked the payments on the level of at least 5% of the average wage, now all of the organizations are together asking the state for rising the payments to 5.5% next year (in 2012 the payment is 4%).
Zvolenská received only promises
Minister of Health agreed with insurance companies that they will give money from € 50 million reserve in state budget in full amount to the hospitals and outpatient clinics, which need them to cover the higher wages of healthcare professionals. State, however, can not force private insurance companies Dôvera and Union to forward all apportioned money to health care providers. State has such a power only in case of state owned Všeobecná zdravotná poisťovňa (General Health Insurance Company). Minister thus received from the association of insurance companies only the verbal promises. The written agreement in the form of common memorandum is being prepared.
Pharmaceuticals are about to get more expensive again
Pharmaceutical companies warn that new redistribution of pharmaceuticals from July will bring higher additional surcharges for patients. They note that while insurance companies will pay less, the surcharges of the patient might in some cases increase by 600%. Ministry of Health was surprised by the reaction of pharmaceutical companies.
Zvolenská will negotiate with employers already this week
Minister of Health Zuzana Zvolenská plans to start another round of negotiations with healthcare employers on the nurses' salary issue. At the negotiating table she should meet with the Association of Faculty Hospitals, Association of Hospitals in Slovakia, trade unionists and the representatives of private doctors. The exact date of the meeting is not known yet.
Fico promises strict control of hospitals
Robert Fico´s Government plans to implement strict control of hospital management. Government, however, does not want to continue with the transformation of hospitals into joint-stock companies, intended by the previous Government. Fico's cabinet will allegedly not admit the privatization of economically lucrative activities of hospitals and will create the conditions for their financial stabilization. Government will not transform the university, faculty and public hospitals into joint-stock companies in the next 4 years. This way it wants to prevent their privatization and reducing of the quality of provided health care, as well as the threatening of the existence of hospitals.
Zvolenská will not let the reserve go so easily
Long promised quick measure, which should avert the collapse in healthcare system, seems to be useless for now. Minister of Health Zuzana Zvolenská still does not know how to transfer € 50 million from the state budget reserve into the healthcare system. There is an annual need of € 100 million for higher salaries of healthcare professionals. Until Zvolenská finds a solution, Ministry of Finance will not release the reserve money.
HCSA imposed penalizations of more than € 1.9 million
Healthcare Surveillance Authority (HCSA) last year imposed penalizations for breach or default of policyholders' or premium payers' obligations in total amount exceeding € 1.9 million. For now, about € 700 000 of this amount was recovered. The most common case is non-payment of monthly health insurance contributions on time and in correct amount.
Zvolenská is missing € 11 million per month
According to the Minister of Health, Zuzana Zvolenská, with no additional funding from the state, the healthcare system is threatened with the collapse. Zvolenská said, the state-owned Všeobecná zdravotná poisťovňa (General Health Insurance Company) may increase the payments to the health care providers by € 3 million per month. There is, however, a need of € 11 million monthly to cover the mandatorily increased salaries; next year it will be € 15 million. Predecessor of Zvolenská, Ivan Uhliarik has a different opinion and claims that from May this year the health insurance companies will save € 41 - € 49 million on purchasing of cheaper pharmaceuticals.
Zvolenská wants to deal with the profit highly expertly
According to Minister of Health, Zuzana Zvolenská, the profit does not belong to health insurance companies and also thus it would be good for Slovakia to have only one health insurance company. Minister wants to deal with the profit of insurance companies highly expertly, not politically. She therefore promised that objective proposal will be submitted only in case, if it is in accordance with the Constitution and international legislation.
New redistribution of insurance contributions from October
Všeobecná zdravotná poisťovňa (General Health Insurance Company) could get more money from new way of risk-adjusted redistribution of insurance contributions between health insurance companies for the first time in October this year. This should by brought by the amendment to the Act on health insurance submitted to the Parliament by Richard Raši. Risk adjustment should be calculated by the Healthcare Surveillance Authority.
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