Moldovan cabinet to revise way of calculation for transfers from state budget to mandatory health insurances accounts

Chisinau, 31 May /MOLDPRES/ - The way of calculating transfers from the state budget to the mandatory health insurances accounts (FAOAM) for the insuring by the cabinet of some categories of persons will be revised, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.  

Presently, the sum of these transfers is calculated as a percentage quota of all the spending approved of the state budget, except for the one made from the special revenues provided for in the legislation, but not less than 12.1 per cent.

The draft law approved by the government today stipulates exclusion of the percentage quota and the value of the money directed will be equal to the approved sum of transfers from the state budget to the mandatory health insurances accounts for the year before and will be indexed depending on the consumer prices index forecast for the current year.  

According to the draft’s authors, the functionality, predictability and financial sustainability of the system of mandatory health insurances will be improved in this way. The amendments were made in line with the recommendations by the Court of Accounts. The Court found out that the way of calculating transfers from the state budget to FAOAM had not been based on concrete indexes (number of people insured by the cabinet and the size of the insurances by the state) which can be quantified and assessed, in order to cover the costs of the medical services provided to these persons.   

Costs worth 2.67 million lei are estimated for the enforcement of the draft law for 2018, up by 149,000 lei than the transfers from the state budget approved for 2017 for the categories of people insured by the government. The additional allocations are already planned within the preliminary limits of expenses set by the Finance Ministry for working out the medium-term budgetary framework for 2018-2020.