The New Strategic Plan in Kosovo to Implement a Health Insurance Scheme

Rudina Degjoni, Rabishe Kurti Jaha and Leunora Brika Haxhiu
Additional contact information
Rudina Degjoni: The Compulsory of Health Care Insurance Fund of Albania
Rabishe Kurti Jaha: Owner of OJQF in Prishtine
Leunora Brika Haxhiu: gency of Medical Products and Equipmen

Prizren Social Science Journal, 2018, vol. 2, issue 1, 109-115

Abstract: This abstract is to provide a concise description of the new strategy of implementation of social health insurance scheme in Kosovo. The health insurance scheme in Kosovo does not exist yet but in April 2014, the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo approved the Law on Health Insurance. The purpose of this law is to ensure the universal access of citizens and residents of the Republic of Kosovo to quality health care services, with the aim of improving health indicators and providing financial protection from poverty due to the high costs of health care through establishment and regulation of the public health insurance system. This law regulates the establishment, organization, functioning, and financing of the public health insurance system; as well as the rights and obligations of the parties involved. The fundamental principles of this law will be transparency, sustainability, equality of citizens and residents of Kosovo, accountability, universal access to health services, solidarity, reciprocity, individual responsibility, easy access, efficiency and protection against financial risks. the scheme will evolved gradually, with different expanding the range of the covered services throught shifting from undifferentiated funding to payment for health services packages in Kosovo. From the beginning of the year 2017, the Ministry of Health of Kosovo takes the decisions to start the new strategic plan in Kosovo to implement a health insurance scheme and to change the mechanisms of the health care system in Kosovo and to build a new insurance scheme. The new health insurance scheme will covers the primary health care services, the hospitals services and the list of reimbursamble drugs.This abstract proposes which are the the new strategic plans to implement the principles on which the health insurance scheme wills base in Kososvo. Which are all the categories benefiting from the health insurance scheme and which are the amount of compulsory health insurance contribution. In brief, the current situation of health system in Kosovo includes problems and missing of health financing. These proposals in this abstract are ambitious and require detailed implementation of social health insurance scheme and planning for the Kososvo population how to be insured in the health sector of Kosovo.

Date: 2018
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://prizrenjournal.com/index.php/PSSJ/article/view/24 To View On Journal Page
http://prizrenjournal.com/index.php/PSSJ/article/view/24/17 To Download Article

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:prj:publsh:v2:y:2018:i:1:p:109-115

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Prizren Social Science Journal from SHIKS
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Luan Vardari ().