copayment

Co-payment in Romanian healthcare will have a regulating effect, will optimize the patient's flow through the system and will reduce the unjustified use of certain services, such as hospital treatment, Health Minister Ladislau Ritli said Tuesday.

Romanian family doctors said they hope problems regarding the frame-contract on public healthcare for 2011-2012 will be solved by June 14 so they won’t be forced to ask patients to pay for medical examinations.

Romania’s Senate committee for healthcare on Tuesday endorsed the bill introducing a copayment system for public healthcare services.