Financial Consequences of the Act on Reimbursement of Medicines for the National Health Fund and Patients

The aim of the paper is to present the financial consequences of the entry into force of the Reimbursement Act in 2012 for the National Health Fund, a payer of public funds, and for individual patients. A greater burden on the society – i.e. an increase in the level of co-payment for medicines – t...

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Main Authors: Zofia Skrzypczak, Jadwiga Suchecka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 2019-01-01
Series:Problemy Zarządzania
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Online Access:https://pz.wz.uw.edu.pl/resources/html/article/details?id=190153
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description The aim of the paper is to present the financial consequences of the entry into force of the Reimbursement Act in 2012 for the National Health Fund, a payer of public funds, and for individual patients. A greater burden on the society – i.e. an increase in the level of co-payment for medicines – turns out to be integrated in the general tendency that emerges during the economic crisis in many European countries at different levels of socio-economic development.
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spelling doaj.art-d359638ad58348e4a82fa77559fae9272022-12-22T04:03:27ZengWydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu WarszawskiegoProblemy Zarządzania1644-95842300-87922019-01-01165(78)3550DOI:10.7172/1644-9584.78.301.3001.0013.2717Financial Consequences of the Act on Reimbursement of Medicines for the National Health Fund and PatientsZofia Skrzypczak0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0062-920XJadwiga Suchecka1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5686-8349Faculty of Management, Warsaw UniversityMedical University of Lodz, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Medical Insurance and Health Care FinancingThe aim of the paper is to present the financial consequences of the entry into force of the Reimbursement Act in 2012 for the National Health Fund, a payer of public funds, and for individual patients. A greater burden on the society – i.e. an increase in the level of co-payment for medicines – turns out to be integrated in the general tendency that emerges during the economic crisis in many European countries at different levels of socio-economic development.https://pz.wz.uw.edu.pl/resources/html/article/details?id=190153total pharmaceutical expenditureout-of-pocket expenditurereimbursement of medicines
spellingShingle Zofia Skrzypczak
Jadwiga Suchecka
Financial Consequences of the Act on Reimbursement of Medicines for the National Health Fund and Patients
Problemy Zarządzania
total pharmaceutical expenditure
out-of-pocket expenditure
reimbursement of medicines
title Financial Consequences of the Act on Reimbursement of Medicines for the National Health Fund and Patients
title_full Financial Consequences of the Act on Reimbursement of Medicines for the National Health Fund and Patients
title_fullStr Financial Consequences of the Act on Reimbursement of Medicines for the National Health Fund and Patients
title_full_unstemmed Financial Consequences of the Act on Reimbursement of Medicines for the National Health Fund and Patients
title_short Financial Consequences of the Act on Reimbursement of Medicines for the National Health Fund and Patients
title_sort financial consequences of the act on reimbursement of medicines for the national health fund and patients
topic total pharmaceutical expenditure
out-of-pocket expenditure
reimbursement of medicines
url https://pz.wz.uw.edu.pl/resources/html/article/details?id=190153
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