Hospitals will have to decide which departments to keep, resize or merge, depending on the activity / CNAS: “Funding indicators must reflect performance, not inertia”
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Each hospital will have to analyze its activity and decide which departments will be kept, resized or reorganized, the National House of Health Care (CNAS) announced on Wednesday in a press release.
The decision was discussed during a video conference with the directors of the 43 health insurance companies in the country, against the background of the preparation of new indicators that will form the basis of the financing of medical units.
CNAS claims that the changes are aimed at correcting imbalances regarding the distribution of funds to hospitals, which represent the largest consumer of money in the health system.
“Hospitals offer vital services, but the reality is that, in some places at least, their structures have remained unchanged for 50 years and no longer have any connection with the real, current needs of the people. Romanians deserve functional hospitals, with staff who understand what it means to perform a medical act with responsibility and respect for the patient, and the indicators for hospital financing have only one goal: to reflect performance, not inertia, not old habits. It is not normal that some doctors operate emergencies all night long, while other on-call lines exist only out of habit,” said the head of CNAS Horațiu-Remus Moldovan.
In the case of hospitals with under-utilized wards, they will be able to collaborate in consortia to jointly offer the necessary services to patients in the area, it is also mentioned in the cited press release.
At the end of the discussions with the directors of the health insurance companies in the country, the CNAS president asked the directors of the county insurance companies to send a clear message to the hospital managers: “Get out of the administrative comfort zone” and find solutions that really meet the needs of patients.
“CNAS, through the county health insurance companies, will offer support to every hospital that wants to become more efficient in the coming months (…) Nobody wants to close hospitals, but we can't tolerate waste either,” Moldovan added.
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