{"id":987641037,"date":"2023-06-10T00:51:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T23:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/?post_type=news&#038;p=987641037"},"modified":"2023-06-10T01:04:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T00:04:55","slug":"kazakhstan-is-merging-the-two-benefits-packages-introduced-in-2020-with-shi","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/kazakhstan-is-merging-the-two-benefits-packages-introduced-in-2020-with-shi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan is merging the two benefits packages introduced in 2020 with SHI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;!!! PLEASE DO NOT EDIT !!!&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;!!! PLEASE DO NOT EDIT !!!&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;TO BE EDITED &#8211; SUMMARY &#8211; Click on the WHEEL icon to open the textarea where you can paste or type your summary.  Summary should be in bold and 250-300 characters. The counter at the bottom can help.&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||20px||false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>\u200bHistorically, Kazakhstan has adopted <strong>two benefits packages<\/strong> with the launch of the Mandatory Social Health Insurance reform nationally in January 2020. One was the <strong>guaranteed volume of free medical care,<\/strong> universally accessible by all regardless of the insurance status, and the second benefits package was <strong>the mandatory social health insurance <\/strong>package, available to the insured.<\/p>\n<p>On May 19,\u00a0 2023, the <strong>Vice Minister of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan<\/strong> <strong>Timur Sultangaziyev<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inform.kz\/ru\/finansovye-potoki-gobmp-i-osms-ob-edinyat-v-edinyy-pul-v-kazahstane_a4069141\">announce<\/a>d that a legislative framework was prepared <strong>to combine the financial flows<\/strong> of the two packages \u2013 the guaranteed free care, and mandatory social health insurance care \u2013<strong> into a single pool,<\/strong> which will simplify the administration of packages for medical workers and ease the process of providing medical care to patients.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;TO BE EDITED &#8211; TEXT OF THE NEWS &#8211; Click on the WHEEL icon to open the textarea where you can paste or type your news. PLEASE USE THE USE ONLY THE FEATURED IMAGE FUNCTION on your right column to add the image.&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the legislative level a program of guarantees for guaranteed volume of free medical care and the mandatory health insurance system was adopted. The Guarantee Program will have a clear delineation of packages, which will allow regulating the process of care provision under the available resources,\u201d Timur Sultangaziyev said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, <strong>Sabit Akhmetov<\/strong>, <strong>CEO of the Social Health Insurance Fund<\/strong>, said that with the introduction of contributory health insurance, two sources of funding were developed and, accordingly, two packages of medical care were created. The first was the free state medical care and the second was the insurance package. \u201cHowever, certain medical care such as outpatient consultative and diagnostic services and inpatient care have been provided across both packages \u2013 were duplicated. Not to mention the population, the health care organizations were confused between these packages,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bHistorically, Kazakhstan has adopted two benefits packages with the launch of the Mandatory Social Health Insurance reform nationally in January 2020. 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