By Trend
A package of services is being renewed in Azerbaijan as part of
the work being carried out to apply the mandatory health insurance
system, chairman of the State Agency on Mandatory Health Insurance
under the Azerbaijani Cabinet of Ministers, Zaur Aliyev, told
Trend.
Aliyev said that the basic package within the pilot project
should be improved.
“A new version of the package of services will be ready for
approval within a few months,” he said.
Aliyev stressed that the cost of the package of services should
be reconsidered.
"The main issue is to organize the preparatory work in
hospitals,” he said. “This work is related to information
technologies because it must be fully automated to completely use
the mandatory health insurance system. In this case, we can receive
information from clinics in a timely manner and we can pay the
hospitals. I think that the creation of software in hospitals and
integration into our system is one of the priority issues."
Aliyev also stressed that presently, the hospitals of the pilot
districts are working with such software.
"The hospitals are fully automated in the pilot areas,” he said.
“The entire registration system is conducted through the program
electronically. The agency plans to use this approach in all
hospitals."
Aliyev added that another issue within the preparatory work is
the organization of cooperation and integration with the
corresponding structures.
"The agency has begun to hold negotiations with the Ministry of
Taxes in connection with payments and will closely cooperate with
this structure,” he said. “At the same time, training is expected
to be held. We will have many meetings with the head physicians and
doctors."
“All of the above-mentioned work will be held this year,” he
said. “The 2019 is a preparatory year for the agency to use the
mandatory health insurance system in the country.”
"This year, all the preparatory work must complete for the
hospitals to pass to the mandatory health insurance system to be
applied everywhere from 2020," Aliyev said.
A pilot project on mandatory health insurance system has been
implemented in the country since the end of 2016. Presently, it
covers Mingachevir city, as well as the Yevlakh and Agdash regions
of the country. The State Agency on Mandatory Health Insurance
launched its activity in Azerbaijan in February 2016.
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