National Hospital Insurance Fund

Prof. Ivan Poromanski, head of the Septic  Surgery Clinic at Sofia's Pirogov University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine, has been appointed director of the hospital, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.

Prof. Poromanski is replacing Prof. Asen Baltov.

The change in the financing of health care should start in the first place with the abolition of the monopoly of the National Health Insurance Fund in order to create competition for health insurers.

This is the fastest way to reach fair market prices for medical services. If there is no agreement, the prices of medical services can be adjusted in the conditions of a monopoly.

Hospital workers insist on a meeting with the management of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) after they said they did not know how much it costs to treat patients with COVID-19 infection. Earlier today, NHIF Governor Prof. Dr. Petko Salchev said that the management of the NHIF has no information on how much it costs to treat a patient with COVID infection.

Representatives of the Bulgarian Medical Union (BMU) and the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) are continuing negotiations to sign the National Framework Agreement for next year.

The government has adopted a decree closing the Fund for the treatment of children, the Government Information Service said.

The decision was made in connection with the changes to the Health Act. According to them, after March 31, the activities performed by the Fund are transferred to the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF).

Due to technical reasons, the cause of which is not coming from the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF), applications for the issuing of European Health Insurance Cards can not be verified and the card issuance process will be delayed, the NHIF announced.

National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) director Kamen Plochev has resigned, Capital reported, citing sources.

A total of 32,913 beds for active treatment are needed to meet the needs of the population for hospital medical care. This is enshrined in the draft National Health Card (NHS), which was adopted by the National Commission and chaired by the Minister of Health and today it was approved by the Ministry of Health, the ministry said.