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Budget of Estonian Health Insurance Fund grows 6.4 pct

BC, Tallinn, 12.01.2016.Print version
The supervisory board of the Estonian Health Insurance Fund on Monday endorsed the fund's budget for 2016 at one bln. euros, 6.4 % more than its budget for 2015, reported BNS.

The financing of health care services will grow about 6 % year over year.


Financing of specialist medical services will grow by approximately 5 % or 28 mln. euros to 577 mln. euros. The components of growth are a wage increase for health care workers and updating of the list of health care services, addition of new services to the list and conducting of activities related to improving the availability of health care services. Compared with the second version of the draft budget, 5 mln. euros was added to the sum total earmarked for outpatient medical services, which allows to maintain the volume of such services on the level of 2015, the Health Insurance Fund said.


Family physicians stand to get 100.3 mln. euros, 9 % more than in  2015, from the budget of the Health Insurance Fund next year.


The budget of nursing services, 30.3 mln. euros, is about 12 % bigger than in 2015.


The sum total set aside for dental services is 24.7 mln. euros, 9 % more than in 2015. This money will be spent mostly for free dental care and disease prevention services for under 19-year-olds.


Payments for temporary incapacity for work are to take 118.3 mln. euros, 15.3 % more than last year. The increase in payments for sick leave days mainly is a result of the increase in the average wage and higher rate of employment.


Subsidies on medicines for insured residents are to cost the Health Insurance Fund 114.5 mln. euros, 2.6 % more than a year ago. Reimbursement of the cost of medical services received abroad is to take 8.3 mln. euros, about 15 % more than in 2015.


With the operating costs of the Health Insurance Fund to remain on the level of 2015, all of the additional money in the fund's budget in 2016 will be spent to improve the availability of health care services, the fund said.






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