The modification of Law No. 95 on Healthcare is mainly referring to the patient being placed at the core of the system, as he/she will have the possibility to choose where to get his/her treatment from - from the state-owned or private hospitals, the Minister of Health, Victor Costache, told a press conference on Monday, underscoring once more that this is not about privatisation.
The emergency ordinance draft regulates the legal framework for the provision of integrated services and related services within the national health programmes, considering that in 2020 the national programme for people with autism spectrum disorders will begin, as well as the fact that within the national health programmes, integrated services will be provided for some of these programs, which may include, as appropriate, medicines, medical services, paraclinical investigations etc.
The draft normative act also proposes that the medical services within the national healthcare programmes, which are supported by the budget of the National Health Insurance Fund, should be carried out in a unitary manner, both through public and private providers, similarly to the regulation on private providers of medicines and medical devices.
According to the initiators, through the draft normative act, the public procurement procedures will be based on the criterion of the best value for money.