In mid-February, an order from the NFZ president regarding the so-called degressive rate in AOS is expected to be published. The changes will take effect in June, and in the fourth quarter the Fund will say "check" to outpatient clinics - and cut funding to those that do not show a high enough percentage of first-time patient admissions. This is the plan he presented at the "Priorities in Health Care 2025" conference. Marek Augustyn, vice president of the National Health Fund.
Changes in the financing of specialized services are to be an antidote to the growing queues to doctors, Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna said several times in January, even stressing that she is prioritizing the project. The Fund is working on the changes, and the specifics are expected to be published very soon. The idea is to eliminate the situation in which the same patient, with the same health problem, visits the AOS clinic not once or twice a year, but even several times each, which ...
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