Coercion Charges Pressed against Head of Sofia Health Insurance Fund

The specialized anti-corruption unit at the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office on 4^th of August accused Bilyanana Peneva-Stoyanova, the director of Sofia Health Insurance Fund for three cases in which she exercised coercion over officials from the Health Fund.

Stoyanova has been accused that on May 15, 2016 in Sofia, in her capacity of director of Sofia Health Insurance Fund, she had forced an employee to do something contrary to his will, namely to increase or decrease the number of points of certain indicators and thus increase the number of beds in a hospital.

By abusing her authority, Stoyanova ordered the employee to draw up a new memorandum, by personally dictating the points on the relevant indicators and said that the memorandum had to be drawn up this way and did not give him the opportunity to reflect in it the results of a previous check, carried out by him, which reflected the actual situation in he University Hospital "SOFIAMED" Ltd.

On October 19, 2016 in Sofia, as a director of the NHIF, she forced another employee to do something contrary to his will. Instead of the results of a check conducted by the employee, according to which hospital "Serdika" EOOD had increased hospitalization by 7 people, Stoyanova ordered him to draw up a new memorandum with the same number dated 20.10.2016, in which to reflect false circumstances, namely that only 2 people in the hospital exceeded the number of 12 hospitalizations. According to the algorithm of clinical pathway № 298, the NHIF pays only for 12 hospitalizations.

Stoyanova pointed out that the hospital could not know about the excess hospitalizations, ignoring the fact that each patient has a file and did not give the employee the opportunity to reflect in the memorandum the actual situation in "Serdika" hospital.

For the third time, on June 7, 2017, Stoyanova, as director of Sofia NHIF, forced an employee to do something contrary to his will. Stoyanova again ordered the employee to reflect false circumstances in a memorandum and personally dictated what to be put in it, using his professional inexperience saying that the memorandum should be drawn up that way and did not give him the opportunity to reflect the findings of an inspection on the actual situation in "Specialized Rehabilitation Hospitals-National Complex" EAD Bankya branch.

If found guilty, for each of the offenses, the law provides for imprisonment of up to 6 years.

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