Poland health system review.

Poland health system review. Health Syst Transit. 2011;13(8):1-193 Authors: Sagan A, Panteli D, Borkowski W, Dmowski M, Domanski F, Czyzewski M, Gorynski P, Karpacka D, Kiersztyn E, Kowalska I, Ksiezak M, Kuszewski K, Lesniewska A, Lipska I, Maciag R, Madowicz J, Madra A, Marek M, Mokrzycka A, Poznanski D, Sobczak A, Sowada C, Swiderek M, Terka A, Trzeciak P, Wiktorzak K, Wlodarczyk C, Wojtyniak B, Wrzesniewska-Wal I, Zelwianska D, Busse R Abstract Since the successful transition to a freely elected parliament and a market economy after 1989, Poland is now a stable democracy and is well represented within political and economic organizations in Europe and worldwide. The strongly centralized health system based on the Semashko model was replaced with a decentralized system of mandatory health insurance, complemented with financing from state and territorial self-government budgets. There is a clear separation of health care financing and provision: the National Health Fund (NFZ) the sole payer in the system is in charge of health care financing and contracts with public and non-public health care providers. The Ministry of Health is the key policy-maker and regulator in the system and is supported by a number of advisory bodies, some of them recently established. Health insurance contributions, borne entirely by employees, are collected by intermediary institutions and are pooled by the NFZ and distributed between the 16 regional NFZ...
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