18.03.2022

THE HEALTH INSURANCE FUND WILL NOW PAY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

As of July 1 this year, the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) will be responsible for granting, reporting, controlling, paying for and repairing aids for people with disabilities. This was said by the manager of the National Health Insurance Fund Petko Salchev during his hearing in the National Assembly, BTA reports.

The funds for the payment of the aids will be provided through a transfer from the Ministry of Health.

The transfer of benefits from the Social Assistance Agency to the NHIF and the preparation of the Mechanism for payment of benefits from the Health Fund is a process that began 12 years ago. According to the Ministry of Social Affairs, the aids are medical devices and the therapy prescribed with them is a type of medical activity that must be paid for by the health system.

The Health Insurance Fund has started a procedure for negotiating the value of the aids. An application has been assigned and currently Information Services AD is working on it to create a software product for electronic prescribing, granting, payment and repair of aids.

Testing of the software product is forthcoming on May 1, and testing with the dealers of aids is expected to be carried out throughout June, and to be put into operation on July 1.

It is planned that the procedure for negotiating the values ​​of the aids will be completed in mid-May and all deadlines will be completed by the end of June, so that the NHIF can administer this process from July 1.