Contracts for providing publically funded outpatient medical services - criteria for tenders evaluation as a tool of health policy in Poland
Journal Title: JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY & OUTCOMES RESEARCH - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
he Polish health care system is essentially divided into three basic levels of service: basic health care, outpatient specialist care, hospital treatment. Since 2003 the payer is the National Health Fund. Medical facilities include contracts for healthcare services with the NHF. In order to be able to provide medical services for a broad group of patients in the actual system of health care and regarding the economic situation of the society, having a contract with the public payer is of key importance. Until 2017, the most common contracting mechanism was competition process. As of October 2017, according to legal changes, hospital treatment along with hospital outpatient clinics will be implemented mostly within the framework of the Primary Hospital Security. Network of hospitals, without the need to obtain a contract within the tender offer. Outpatient counseling clinics will continue to receive contracts through competitive tenders. It means not only the necessity to meet certain predefined requirements but also to demonstrate competitive prevalence of a bidding medical institution vs. other participating stakeholders. It is necessary for success to know the criteria which decide about the bidding institution’s position in the ranking of entities which have responded to the call to tender. The criteria for evaluating offers can undoubtedly form part of the state health policy.
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Magdalena Siebielska-Gasek
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