The All-Russian Union of Patients (VSP) asked the government to extend incentive payments to healthcare workers serving under the compulsory medical insurance program (CHI) in non-state clinics. This has been reported “Vedomosti” Referring to the letter sent by the union’s co-chairs Yuri Zhulev and Yan Vlasov to Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on September 20. A representative of the government’s press service referred questions to the Ministry of Health.
The letter states that medical care under compulsory health insurance in Russia is provided in both public and private hospitals. Meanwhile, more than 4 million people receive these services at out-of-state clinics. But in the end, incentive payments from the state go only to doctors and nurses in state and municipal clinics and dispensaries participating in compulsory health insurance programs.
VSP believes that the state introduced payments to employees of public hospitals in order to eliminate staff shortages and attract doctors from commercial clinics. However, although such a mechanism eliminates the shortage of doctors in some regions, it also creates this problem in others. As a result, the problem is not solved.
The union felt that this situation was unfair to doctors in private clinics; They do not have government payments because they work in organizations with different forms of ownership. That’s why doctors are leaving private clinics and going to public clinics to allocate payments.
Healthcare workers who previously lived in Russian regions reported to reduce fees.