Kazakhstanis to receive free medical care in 600 private clinics

The Social Health Insurance Fund completes the procedures for concluding contracts with medical organizations to provide services to the population within the guaranteed volume of free medical care in 2018. First of all, the contracts are concluded for the provision of primary health care, ambulance and other priority areas, the press-service of the Fund informed.

As of January 2018, regional and republican commissions on the distribution of the volume of procurement of medical services for 2018 have made decisions to enter into contracts with 1,385 medical organizations that have submitted applications for planned volumes of medical assistance and are recognized as meeting the established legal requirements. We note that the commissions include representatives of the NCE "Atameken", NGOs, the Ministry of Healthcare of Kazakhstan, other state and public organizations.

As of January 5, the total amount of contracts for the placement of volumes of the guaranteed volume of free medical care amounted to 673 billion tenge or about 80% of all funds allocated for rendering medical assistance this year from the republican budget.

The remaining funds will be allocated during the year, taking into account the goals and objectives set before the Fund by the Government and the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the development of priority areas of health care, ensuring accessibility and quality of medical care to patients regardless of their place of residence and taking into account the free choice of the patient of a medical organization.

"In 2018, about 600 private medical organizations will serve the public within the state order, which is 43% of all suppliers of the Fund. In comparison with 2017, the number of private providers has increased by 130 medical organizations", the report said.

The amount of concluded contracts with private medical organizations will amount to 95 billion tenge this year, which is almost 2 times higher than the same indicator of 2017.

South Kazakhstan, East Kazakhstan, Karaganda, Zhambyl regions, as well as the cities of Astana and Almaty take the leading position by the number of private medical organizations that are ready to provide medical assistance in the framework of the state order.

In particular, the population of Astana within the state order this year will serve 81 medical organizations. Among them there are 36 state and 45 private hospitals and clinics, with which contracts are concluded for a total of 75.5 billion tenge.

In the city of Almaty there are 171 medical organizations, 71 of which are private. The growth in the number of private providers compared with 2017 was 42%. They conclude contracts for medical assistance this year to the amount of over 80 billion tenge.

In addition, private medical organizations of Almaty took an active part in placing volumes for outpatient care. If in 2017 there were 14 private polyclinics in Almaty that carried out the state order to the amount of 859 million tenge, then in 2018 - 27 private medical organizations that will provide outpatient and polyclinic assistance in the amount of 1.9 billion tenge, which is 2.2 times more compared with 2017.

Also in Almaty, the 2.5-time increase in the number of private providers for consultative and diagnostic services is marked.

The types of medical care provided by private traders have also been expanded, so this year in Almaty private providers for oncological care, emergency medical aid and pathoanatomical diagnostics will appear for the first time.