The conversion of independent public healthcare units into capital companies (against the background of the act on medical activities) Cover Image

Przekształcenia samodzielnych publicznych zakładów opieki zdrowotnej w spółki kapitałowe (w świetle przepisów ustawy o działalności leczniczej)
The conversion of independent public healthcare units into capital companies (against the background of the act on medical activities)

Author(s): Agnieszka Rabiega-Przyłęcka
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
Keywords: conversion of independent public healthcare units; medical entities; capital companies

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the institution introduced by the Act of 15 April 2011 on Medical Activities which is related to the direct conversion of independent public healthcare units into capital companies (limited liability company or join-stock company) subject to the regulations of the Code of Commercial Companies. The possibility (in certain cases the obligation) to convert the organizational and legal form of independent public healthcare unit is, on the one hand, an attempt to limit the debts of public healthcare units and rationalize their medical activities and, on the other one, an issue connected with many concerns related, in particular, to the impact of market’s mechanisms on medical entities. The Act on Medical Activities introduces significant organizational changes in the system of entities performing medical activities. It legalizes the opportunity to make organizational changes of public healthcare units and specifies the procedure of conversion, establishing the founding entities responsible for carrying out the reorganization in subjected healthcare units. The regulations strengthen the powers of founding entities, increase the responsibility e.g. for financial condition of medical entities.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 319
  • Page Range: 13-25
  • Page Count: 13