{"id":987525588,"date":"2022-07-13T03:49:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T02:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/health-insurance-fund-held-public-hearings-on-pricing-of-its-services\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T09:21:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:21:14","slug":"health-insurance-fund-held-public-hearings-on-pricing-of-its-services","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/health-insurance-fund-held-public-hearings-on-pricing-of-its-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Insurance Fund held public hearings on pricing of its services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en\"><span><span>On June 29, 2022, public hearings were held on proposed <strong>prices for the services provided by the single payor <\/strong>&#8212; the<strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>Social Health Insurance Fund. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><span><span>Public hearings are required <strong>to approve the prices of services <\/strong>provided by a state monopoly entity, such as the Insurance Fund. The prices of the Fund&#8217;s services are calculated based on the costs of its activities, as well as the labor standards set by the Labor Code of Kazakhstan. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><span><span>Participants included the Ministry of Healthcare of Kazakhstan, the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs &#8220;Atameken&#8221;, public associations in health care and the Antimonopoly authority.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><span><span>The<strong>&nbsp; <\/strong>Social Health Insurance Fund provides two types of services to the public (and to the government):<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span lang=\"en\"><span><span>accumulation of deductions and contributions, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en\"><span><span>payment for the services of healthcare entities within the Mandatory Health Insurance system.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>These services are regulated by <span lang=\"en\"><span><span>the Entrepreneurial Code of Kazakhstan and the Law \u201cOn Mandatory Health Insurance\u201d, which set the basis for calculating the cost of health insurance fund&#8217;s activities.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><span><span>Representatives of the Fund explained that the draft prices for the Fund&#8217;s services are subject to state monopoly policies, and were going to be sent for examination to the Antimonopoly authority before approval by the Ministry of Healthcare. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><span><span>According to the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan &#8220;On Mandatory Social Health Insurance&#8221;, <strong>the Fund operates at the expense of a commission fee,<\/strong> annually approved by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><span><span>According to the Ministry of Healthcare, holding a public hearing to discuss the draft prices for services provided by the Fund demonstrates transparency of the Fund&#8217;s activities.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><span><span>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.kz\/memleket\/entities\/dsm\/press\/news\/details\/394878?lang=ru\">Ministry of Healthcare of Kazakhstan<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 29, 2022, public hearings were held on proposed prices for the services provided by the single payor &#8212; the&nbsp; Social Health Insurance Fund. Public hearings are required to approve the prices of services provided by a state monopoly entity, such as the Insurance Fund. The prices of the Fund&#8217;s services are calculated based&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":987526819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[127],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987525588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987525588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987525588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987526819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987525588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987525588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987525588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}