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Health Insurance Archives - Page 10 of 121 - P4H Network
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Universal health insurance: Government to inject $30 billion by 2025
Universal health insurance: Government to inject $30 billion by 2025
Burkina Faso

More than 1,500 people have received their provisional registration cards and certificates for the universal health insurance scheme. Twelve structures have been affiliated and 199,112 have been pre-registered. This was announced by the Minister in charge of of social...

Hungarian hospitals beat an alarm on rising debt
Hungarian hospitals beat an alarm on rising debt
Hungary

Hospitals in Hungary are sounding alarm as rising debts restrict operations. Past due debt of hospitals reached €300 million in March 2024, caused by the lack of financing reform, amortisation, and rising energy prices, while inflation rates, wage increases, and...

Health insurance in Bangladesh: Challenges, prospects and action plan
Health insurance in Bangladesh: Challenges, prospects and action plan
Bangladesh

In 2022, healthcare spending in Bangladesh pushed 6.3 million people below the poverty line, with 61% of hospitalized patients experiencing financial trauma. To cope with medical expenses, many individuals resort to selling assets or taking high-interest loans. Health...

Georgian Government introduces co-payments into its UHC scheme
Georgian Government introduces co-payments into its UHC scheme
Georgia

The Georgian government is introducing co-payments in the universal health coverage system to allow patient choice and flexibly. Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said patients who could not choose a preferred provider or certain comfort level during medical care would...

Moving Forward on National Health Insurance in Antigua and Barbuda
Moving Forward on National Health Insurance in Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda

Plans for establishing national health insurance in Antigua and Barbuda were put on hold due to the COVID19 pandemic. The Minister of Health confirms that these plans will now go ahead.Establishing a National Health Insurance was a strategic intervention in the...

Hungarian law on compulsory health insurance: Act LXXXIII of 1997
Hungary

Act LXXXIII of 1997 in Hungary is a law that defines the Hungarian health care system, including which services are free, which are covered by copayment, and which are excluded from prepaid public benefit schemes. This law also establishes the financing of health care...

Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Health Insurance
Lithuania

This is the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Insuring Health (I-1343), signed on May 21, 1996 by Algirdas Brazauskas, President of the Republic of Lithuania. The attached file contains the latest amendments introduced by Law No. XIV-2335 on December 14, 2023. This...

Will Swiss voters accept standardised financing of healthcare?
Will Swiss voters accept standardised financing of healthcare?
Switzerland

Swiss voters are set to decide on a significant revision of the healthcare financing model, aimed at standardizing costs between inpatient and outpatient care and improving the affordability and quality of healthcare services. Supported by various political parties...

Chronic disease management programme (PROLANIS) in Indonesia
Indonesia

In response to the significant rise in the prevalence of chronic diseases, Indonesia’s national health insurance agency (Badan Pengelola Jaminan Sosial Kesehatan or BPJS Kesehatan) implemented several purchasing arrangements for managing chronic conditions under the...