Moldova and Estonia will cooperate in the area of health insurance. An agreement to this effect was signed on October 6 by the competent institutions of the two states – the National Health Insurance Company of Moldova (CNAM) and the Estonian Health Insurance Fund (Eesti Haigekassa). The document was signed in Chisinau by CNAM director general Mircea Buga and the chairman of the Management Board of Eesti Haigekassa Tanel Ross. It will take effect on November 12, 2015, IPN reports.
According to a communiqué of the CNAM, the accord envisions the development and strengthening of cooperation in the healthcare financing system and the area of mandatory health insurance through information and experience exchange in developing and implementing the institutional strategy and the national legislation in the field. There will be intensified the relations of cooperation in such sectors as the performance management system, financial forecasts, active purchase and setting of prices of medical services, information technologies for increasing organizational competitiveness. In this respect, there will be organized reciprocal visits, congresses, conferences and other joint activities.
The CNAM and Eesti Haigekassa will set up a joint commission that will meet at least once a year to agree the plans of action and to assess the implementation of the cooperation programs.
The CNAM established cooperation relations with the Estonian Health Insurance Fund in 2011. Until now it has borrowed from the Estonian side a series of practices within the project “Support to the functionality of the mandatory health insurance system in Moldova” that is financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia and Eesti Haigekassa.
