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Enhanced capitation for dentists, motive for better service - Visiting dental offices in Kavadarci
Today in Kavadarci, the directors of the Health Insurance Fund of Macedonia, Dr.
Sasho Stefanovski and Orhan Ramadani had meetings with several private dentists
from Kavadarci.
Annual DRG Report CGH 8th of September has the best results
Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) methodology, in
addition to being a system for recording and billing of health
services for acute hospital patients, is also a method for
recording and funding the hospital healthcare. DRG
contributes to standardization of the medical therapeutic
procedures according to evidence-based medicine (protocols
and clinical pathways), which are provided for each diagnosis
by paying on average costs incurred for health services in any
health facility.
Increased choice of medicines from different manufacturers to pharmacies and public health institutions borne by the HIFM
From June 11th, the list of brand name medicines borne by
the Fund will be expanded with 80 new brand name
medicines from 23 different manufacturers1 and companies,
within the existing generics which will be 4% more medicines
for the insureds. With this, the total count of medicines from
different manufacturers available for the insureds and borne
by the Fund is 2010 medicines or 52% of the registered
medicines in the country.
Right to emergency and necessary healthcare of HIFM’s insureds abroad
The Health Insurance Fund of Macedonia shall notify all insureds that during their holidays they can
exercise their rights to emergency and necessary healthcare using the bilingual form outside the
territory of Republic of Macedonia in the following 17 states: Germany, Austria, Turkey, Croatia,
Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Netherlands,
Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Italy, Slovakia and Albania.
Six new specialist medical institutions concluded contract with HIFM Increased availability of the specialist health protection for the citizens
The Health Insurance Fund of Macedonia concluded contracts with six new medical specialists in four cities
throughout the country which became part of the health institutions, thus ensuring specialist health protection of
the insured persons at the expense of the Fund.
Blood donation action “Heart of Fund”
Today, as much as 20 out of total 800 employees in the Health Insurance Fund of Macedonia joined the
blood donation action “Heart of Fund” which is organized in cooperation with the Institute of
transfusion medicine.
New Contracts for Ortopedic Devices
Orthopaedic medical aids will be issued in 332 pharmacies with which the Fund concluded a contract
through public procurement calls, correspondingly. The Health Insurance Fund enables execution of the
right to use orthopaedic medical aids which annually allocates a significant amount of funds, providing
406 types of orthopaedic and other medical devices, or 1,210 devices from different manufacturers. As
of October 31, 2016, the Fund had concluded contracts with 31 companies for handling orthopaedic aids
on the territory of Macedonia, which have a network of 111 specialized shops. The funds for
orthopaedic aids allocated by the Fund are increasing yearly, and in 2016 this amount reached 550
million denars.
Continuing trend of increased use of electronic services to this point 29,064 beneficiaries have used electronic services
In the context of promoting and facilitating communication between the Health Insurance Fund and the
beneficiaries, the companies and health care workers, we have enabled a set of electronic services on
the web portal of the Fund for a quick, easy and an effective way for the beneficiaries to exercise their
rights and avoid the inconvenience of coming directly to the premises of the Fund.
Announcement - Higher budget for new methods, medicines and increased scope of healthcare services
In 2 years, the budget HIFM higher by 2 billion and 900 million denars
Increased budget of the Children’s Hospital – Kozle for new methods and more qualitative health protection for the children
Today, Dr. Saso Stefanoski and Orhan Ramadani, Directors of the Health Insurance Fund of Macedonia,
visited the Children’s Hospital – Kozle and held work meeting with Dr. Oliver Zafirovski, the Director
and Rijad Alimi, the Economic Director and with the managerial team of the hospital.
Health Insurance Fund awarded the 10,000th voucher for in vitro
On 03.01.2017, the Health Insurance Fund awarded the 10,000th voucher for in vitro
fertilization. The insured person who received the voucher is 43 years of age from Skopje, with initials
S.M.M. The Fund wishes successful procedure and a baby in the New Year.
Increased use of electronic services 35,734 insured persons have so far used the electronic services of the Fund
Within the framework of promoting and facilitating the communication between the Health Insurance
Fund and the insured persons, companies and health workers, we have provided a set of electronic
services on the portal of the Fund so that the insured persons can exercise their legal rights in a quick,
easy and efficient way, without having to come to the counters of the Fund.