The Ministry of Health and the National Health Fund announce an increase in the lump sum for hospitals: in the range of half a billion PLN for this year and over PLN 4 billion for the next year. These are additional funds that will be available to all those who, showing care for patients, exceeded the limit of the lump sum amount this year.
MZ: Over PLN 4.5 billion more for hospitals
Published Nov. 18, 2022 12:27
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By November, over 100 hospitals have already significantly exceeded the lump sum granted to them for the past months and, guided by care for the well-being of patients, they continue to provide services. For some of them, this involved exceeding the lump sum by as much as 30 percent, but there are also facilities where this exceedance reaches the level of as much as 60 percent.
“Hospitals like this should definitely be appreciated. Thanks to them, we are catching up on health from over 2 years of the pandemic. Exceeding the lump sum means admitting a much larger number of patients than could be assumed. Together with the president of the National Health Fund, I decided that facilities that exceeded the lump sum should be granted a gratification, i.e. additional financing, and we intend to introduce such financing already in December, says the Minister of Health, Dr. Adam Niedzielski.
According to the announcement of the Ministry of Health, facilities belonging to the network of hospitals that settle for the services provided in a lump sum with the National Health Fund, and which are at least 8% exceeded the lump sum for 2022 will receive additional funds already in December.
- If the hospital exceeded its lump sum by at least 8 percent, it proves that it has actively joined in making up for the health debt, which in practice means that the facility has performed more medical procedures for patients as part of the lump sum settlement. Each hospital that exceeded this 8 percent. limit, we will reimburse more than half of the amount exceeded - explains Filip Nowak, President of the National Health Fund.
According to the National Health Fund, the new mechanism will cover at least 20 percent of hospitals throughout Poland, most of them are district facilities. The amount that the National Health Fund will allocate this year to finance the exceeded lump sums is PLN 500 million. What is extremely important, this year's lump sum surplus will be added to the value of the hospital lump sum for 2022, thus increasing the hospital lump sum for 2023.
Another extremely important step for hospital finances is to raise the next year's valuation for the so-called point in the lump sum. From January 1, 2023, its value increases by as much as 15 percent. to the level of PLN 1.62
- Only this procedure will increase the financing of the Polish hospital system next year by a significant amount of PLN 4 billion. This will definitely improve the condition of hospitals in the era of rising maintenance costs - sums up Minister Niedzielski.
Source: MZ
