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Zmiany w konstrukcji prawnej źródeł finansowania zadań państwowego ratownictwa medycznego
Changes in the Legal Structure of Financing Sources for the State Emergency Medical Services

Author(s): Paweł Lenio
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Public Finances
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: sources of financing; State Medical Rescue; state budget;

Summary/Abstract: The study addresses the issue of changes in the financing of certain public tasks carried out within the framework of the State Medical Rescue system. It outlines the scope of the changes that came into effect on January 1, 2023. As a result of the reform, the tasks of emergency medical teams (excluding air ambulance teams) are now financed directly by the National Health Fund (NFZ), which has been deprived of the earmarked subsidy from the state budget for their implementation. Thus, the full burden of financing the tasks of emergency medical teams has been shifted to the NFZ. Imposing additional costs on the Fund, while at the same time maintaining significant underfunding of public health care tasks, in no way contributes to improving the accessibility and quality of health services provided to beneficiaries under the universal health insurance scheme.

  • Issue Year: 140/2025
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 159-169
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish
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