Equality of the parties or subordination agreements for the provision of patient care in the public health insurance Cover Image

Równość stron czy podporządkowanie w umowach o udzielanie świadczeń opieki zdrowotnej w ramach powszechnego ubezpieczenia zdrowotnego
Equality of the parties or subordination agreements for the provision of patient care in the public health insurance

Author(s): Kamila Kocańda
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Published by: Naczelna Izba Lekarska
Keywords: equality of the parties;provision of patient care;public health insurance

Summary/Abstract: Health care benefits financed from public funds by the National Health Fund, due to the separation of functions of the payer and the provider, are carried out with the participation of publicand commercial entities, performing medical activities. The process of contracting these benefits should emphasise the existence of uniform criteria for the selection of providers, and their equal treatment when applying for a contract. The market of health care services, financed from public funds is increasingly open to service providers, and not only the public ones. It must, in consequence,result in specific organizational manner of benefits’ provision, yet at the same time leadinginto temptation of imposing prices and conditions of contracts, in the absence of a realchoice of any other, alternative source of financing the services.

  • Issue Year: 6/2014
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 193-200
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish