NFZ cuts hit patients. Hospitals limit treatments because they are afraid that the National Health Fund will not pay them for surplus

Hospitals limit treatments because they are afraid that the National Health Fund will not pay them for surplus. And patients suffer in several months of queues or are indebted to private treatment. The number of joint endoprosthesis has already dropped by 14 percent. – informs “Dziennik Gazeta Prawna” in the Wednesday issue.

According to the National Health Fund, the number of enforcement -made endoprosthesis is falling for the second year in a row, this time by about 14 percent. A total of just over 55,000 were made. – The most treatments concern the hip joint and this is where their largest decrease was recorded – by about 17 percent. Thus, the participation of this type of endoprotezoplasty decreased to 56 percent, i.e. by 2 percentage points. relative to last year – reports “DGP”.

The newspaper estimates that in terms of the number of endoprosthesis this year will be the weakest from 2021. “If the current pace persists until the end of the year, the number of treatments in the entire 2025 will be about 100,000 for comparison in 2024. It was over 117,000, just like in 2023. In 2022, their number exceeded 105,000, in 2021 – he calculates.

The number of treatments began to slow down in April, when it became clear that the National Health Fund lacks money, so hospitals may have trouble recovering the full amount for surplus – explains the newspaper. June brought deepening this inheritance. Only in the case of the hip pond was made of 3.3 thousand. treatments against 4.5 thousand in May and 5.8 thousand in March this year.

Due to the fact that payments are ongoing, this year's treatments are also moved to the next year, and this means that the queue is still extended. According to data from the world of the world of clinic, currently the average waiting time is 527 days. (PAP)

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