The National Health Insurance Company (CNAM) has signed the first cooperation agreement with the National Anticorruption Center on the diminution of informal payments in healthcare. Under the agreement, the persons insured through the Mandatory Health Insurance System will benefit from increased protection of their rights in the medical and pharmaceutical institutions contracted by the CNAM, when they are forced to make informal payments for services included in the common program, IPN reports.
According to a communiqué from the CNAM, the agreement was signed in the context of the implementation of the Government’s program “European Integration: freedom, democracy, welfare”, the national anticorruption strategies for 2011 – 2015 and the CNAM institutional development strategy for 2013 – 2017. The signatories pledged to cooperate in working out the legal framework and in implementing policies that will contribute to the prevention and combating of corruption offenses, facts of corrupting behavior and money laundering in the Mandatory Health Insurance System.
The CNAM by the end of this year is to sign similar cooperation agreements with a number of partners, including the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of the Interior, the Financial Inspection of the Ministry of Finance and the National Bureau of Statistics.
