The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health Amending the Regulation on the Pilot Program for Comprehensive Care of Patients with Early Arthritis has been submitted for consultation.
Changes to pilot of comprehensive care for patients with early arthritis
Published March 7, 2024 12:30
In a Regulation of the Minister of Health dated September 15, 2023, on the pilot program for comprehensive care for early arthritis recipients (Journal of Laws, item 2212), the Minister of Health specified, among other things, the conditions for the organization, implementation and list of health care services provided in the pilot program for comprehensive care for early arthritis recipients, hereinafter referred to as the "COWZS pilot program." The condition for providers to have only on-site laboratory, X-ray, ultrasound, MRI and CT scans means that the COWZS pilot program will not be able to be implemented in all provinces. According to the opinion of the national consultant in rheumatology, this applies to the Pomeranian, Silesian and Greater Poland provinces.
Failure to implement the pilot program in provinces where experienced rheumatology centers cannot meet the stricter formal conditions set forth in the pilot program, making it impossible to test the organizational model nationwide.
The draft also needs to make a correction related to the incorrect numbering of drafting units.
The draft regulation introduces an amendment to allow contracts with the National Health Fund for the implementation of the NEHC pilot program by the providers listed in Annex 5 to the regulation, which is the List of Early Arthritis Centers, hereinafter referred to as "NEHC centers."
The previous requirement to have only on-location laboratory, X-ray, ultrasound, MRI and CT scans will be replaced by a requirement to have these tests available.
The addition of 4 WZS centers to the list of implementers of the COWZS pilot program from the Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Podkarpackie, Podlaskie and Świętokrzyskie provinces will enable the development of a uniform organizational model in a total of 14 provinces in 19 rheumatology centers and will cover the entire country. Beneficiaries from the Opolskie and Lubuskie provinces, where there are currently no rheumatology centers, will have access to the pilot program in centers from neighboring provinces.
Source: RCL
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