Challenges and changes in the Polish healthcare system

The healthcare reform package submitted to the Polish parliament could lead to a radical and fundamental change in existing business models and in the rules on marketing activities. The most important provisions introduced by the new Reimbursement Act are: fixed markups and prices of reimbursed medi...

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Published inSociety and economy Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 575 - 594
Main Author Orlewska, Ewa
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Budapest Akadémiai Kiadó 01.12.2011
Academic Publishing House
Akademiai Kiado Zrt
Subjects
Age groups
Business models
Civil Society
Copayments
Decision making
Economic costs
Financial budgets
GDP
Governance
Gross Domestic Product
Health and medicine and law
Health care costs
Health care economics
Health care expenditures
Health care industry
Health care policy
Health insurance
Health technology assessment
Management and complex organizations
Mutual insurance companies
Pharmaceutical preparations
Prescription drug plans
Reforms
Reimbursement
Social development
Society
State budgets
Studies
Technology assessment
Wholesale trade
Poland
reform
Poland
healthcare system
pharmaceutical policy
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Summary:The healthcare reform package submitted to the Polish parliament could lead to a radical and fundamental change in existing business models and in the rules on marketing activities. The most important provisions introduced by the new Reimbursement Act are: fixed markups and prices of reimbursed medicines, introduction of a pay-back system, risk-sharing mechanisms, tax on income from reimbursements, a maximum (total) reimbursement budget, new therapeutic and economic criteria for various levels of reimbursement. Undoubtedly the planned changes will improve the functioning of the reimbursement procedure by increasing the transparency of the process. Challenges facing health policy in Poland are not unique: similar have been identified in Hungary. Owing to the similarities between both countries in healthcare systems, clinical practice patterns and economic indicators, it seems to be reasonable to develop partnerships in creating relevant regional databases and registries, and in examination of the generalisability and transferability of health technology assessment findings.
ISSN:1588-9726
1588-970X
DOI:10.1556/SocEc.33.2011.3.8