Romanians who do not have health insurance can register on the lists of family doctors and will benefit from a package of basic health services included in the framework contract of the National Health Insurance House, after the government passed an emergency decree in this regard. They will also have access to preventive health services.

“This way we can prevent suffering and more costs,” Adriana Pistole, secretary of state for the Ministry of Health, recently explained at a press conference.

“This is a proposal of the NSZU. There are uninsured people who are also currently registered with family doctors. Now all the uninsured can register with a family doctor and take advantage of the minimum package of medical services,” recently explained Adriana Pistole, State Secretary of the Ministry of Health.

What is new about this GEO project? “We want to offer them not only a minimum package, but a basic package that includes a little more services. The basic package includes services that include preventive services, including screening and monitoring of chronic diseases,” said Adriana Pistol.

The main provisions of the Government on the state of emergency:

“34. In the first part of Article 221, amendments were made to letters d) and h) with the following meaning:

d) minimum package of services – provided to persons who do not confirm the quality of insurance and includes medical services of primary medical care, medical services, medicines and sanitary-hygienic materials only in case of urgent medical-surgical and endemepidemic diseases. potential, independent medical transportation, pregnancy and pregnancy development monitoring, family planning services and prevention services, and is established by the framework contract and its application rules; persons who have not confirmed that they are insured can also receive medical care in the community in accordance with the Government’s Emergency Decree no. 18/2017 on public medical care, approved by Law No. 180/2017 with subsequent amendments and additions and methodological norms approved by the Government’s decision regarding the organization, functioning and financing of activities for providing medical care to the population.”

37. In Article 232, after the third part, four new paragraphs of par. (3^1) – (3^4), as follows:

“(3^1) Medical services of primary health care, included in the minimum package of services, are the same as in the basic package of services, with the exception of additional services and separate auxiliary measures and are established by the framework contract and regulations. its application.

(3^2) In order to use the medical services of primary medical care, which are included in the minimum package of services, persons who do not confirm the quality of insurance must be registered in the family doctor’s list, and persons who do not confirm the insured quality and are registered in of a family doctor, re-registered to the same or another family doctor, chosen at one’s own will, in accordance with Art. 230 paragraphs (2) lit. a) and c).

(3^3) Persons who have not provided confirmation of the quality of insurance, registered in the family doctor’s list, can change the chosen family doctor only after the expiration of at least 6 months from the date of registration in the list, except for the situations stipulated by the Contract.

(3^4) Funds necessary for the payment of medical services of primary medical care provided to the persons specified in para. (3^2) is carried out from the state budget through an estimate approved by the Ministry of Health in the form of transfers to the budget of the unified national social insurance fund.”

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