Health insurance

The National Framework Agreement of the National Health Insurance Fund was signed in the Ministry of Health on 28th of February. According to the Health Minister, Kiril Ananiev, the agreement is better than the previous one and expects to bring peace to the system.

The Medical and Dental Association and the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) will sign the National Framework Contract for 2018 today at 5 pm

This became clear after a meeting with Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

The contract will be within the pre-agreed parameters.

Western clinics refuse to accept Bulgarians because of the problems with the payment of the funds for treatment by the Bulgarian fund, confirms representatives of the Supervisory Board of the National Health Insurance Fund and the Fund for Treatment of Children in the program "Before All" on "Horizon" radio.

From 1 January 2018, people who make their statutory healthcare contributions (for example, long-term unemployed who do not receive unemployment benefit and are not insured by the state, etc.) and are not registered as self-employed within the meaning of the Social Security Code , owed monthly BGN 20.40, the NRA reported.

Approximately BGN 28.5 million will be granted from Ministry of Health for activities carried out by municipal hospitals under the Methodology for subsidizing hospitals for 2018.

Over 4 million Romanian patients will have to pay for primary medical care or register with another doctor in 2018, after 2,500 family doctors said they would not cooperate with the government health insurance company as part of a protest against red tape and a lack of funds.

The media industry was one of the hardest hit when the financial crisis broke out in Greece. The harsh austerity measures the subsequent governments were forced to take as part of the deal for consecutive packages of bailout money affected many jobs in journalism, with professionals compelled to either change their line of work or lose their social security benefits.

Vienna Insurance Group (VIG) is moving in the fast lane in Bulgaria. According to current data from the local financial supervisory authority, the two VIG Group companies Bulstrad and Bulstrad Life are number 1 in the Bulgarian insurance market.

An unknown man on Monday morning smashed the glass at the entrance to Novi Sad's branch of the Republic Health Insurance Fund (RFZO).

"It is expected that the budgets for hospitals to be corrected in June", said the Deputy Director of the National Health Insurance Agency (NHIA) Dimitar Petrov in front of journalists, reported bTV.

Petrov explained that from April 1st the hospitals are working with a quarter budgets and could be spent with plus 3% above the anticipated.