Upharmacia April 2017 | Page 9

Upharmacia April 2017 stated. The Head of the NABU said the authority plans to create the special unit detectives, which will investigate criminal cases related to healthcare. According to the data of Transparency International Ukraine, medicine is one of the most corrupted spheres in Ukraine, as above 30% of Ukrainians face corruption in healthcare sector. I nsurance F ee within S tate M edical I nsurance is to T riple in 4 Y ears The MOH promulgated the draft legislation acts to introduce new standards of funding of medical sphere. According to the plan, the insurance fee per one family within the state solidary medical insurance is to increase form UAH 4,583 in 2017 to UAH 13,948. The calculations are based www.upharma-c.com on the projected volume of healthcare expenditures at the expense of state and local budgets as well as private payments of the population for the period of implementation of the reform (2017-2021). The healthcare reform foresees the transition to the purchase of medical services through the single national customer, introduction of possible co-payment for the services of secondary and tertiary medical care since. The MOH projects that the new funding model will allow to decrease informal payments for medical services form 51.5% of all costs of the industry currently to 24.2% in 2021. Is also expected that the state funding of the single national customer of medical services will increase from 2.1% of GDP to 3.8% of GDP in 2017-2020. 9