Check at Health Insurance Fund to Establish Liabilities to Foreign Health Funds

An urgent check at the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) is aimed at identifying the liabilities of the fund to foreign health insurance funds. This became clear after an extraordinary meeting of the NHIF Supervisory Board on 23rd of February.

According to data revealed by the NHIF Head, Prof. Kamen Plochev, the debts are over 271,000,000BGN, over 133,000,000 of which are overdue. The Finance Minister, however, reported that the liabilities in arrears as at the end of January amounted to BGN 7,600,000.

The chair of the Supervisory Board explained that this was the amount recorded in the NHIF trial balance and there were other figures of claims filed in the Budget Directorate.

The check commissioned by the Supervisory Board is aimed at clarifying the total and overdue liabilities, the Chair of the Supervisory Board and Deputy Health Minister Zheni Nacheva explained. According to her, the BGN 73,000,000 allocated in the budget for this year for payments to foreign health funds will be fully sufficient.

Bulgaria’s Health Minister Kiril Ananiev last week demanded the resignation of NHIF Director Kamen Plochev after the latter sent a letter to the Parleiment asking to update the NHIF budget by 140,000,000 without notifying the Health Minister or NHIF Supervisory Board first.

Acting over the head of the Board, the Health Minister and the Council of Ministers, he demanded a budget update, the Health Minister said.

In his letter to the Parliament, Prof. Plochev said that as at the end of January, NHIF owes BGN 133,600,000 for treatment of Bulgarians abroad. At the same time, according to Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov, the liabilities on a monthly basis are BGN 7,600,000. Goranov says he does not know where the difference of 126 million BGN comes from.

The finance minister says that if Prof. Plochev's data is correct, negotiations on the new framework agreement should be suspended until a debt repayment plan is drawn up. NHIF has announced that they have begun to prepare reports and analyses on the finances and will come up with an official position within days.

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