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Gap grows between medical liability insurance premiums and payouts
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Speech therapists lambast medical liability insurance prices
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (518+ words) Healthcare providers have been required for just over a year to carry liability insurance, but speech therapists and dentists say premiums have risen too much. Compared to last year, liability insurance premiums have risen by 20 to 60 percent, said Mare Laidra,…...
Ain Aaviksoo: Prevention should be tied to medical insurance contribution
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (925+ words) Estonia could fund healthcare more wisely by linking preventive care participation to health insurance contributions and co-payment rates. Even an employer whose workforce actively engages in prevention could receive a modest tax incentive, writes Ain Aaviksoo. Estonia's health insurance system…...
Health Insurance Fund running a deficit for at least 15 years
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (364+ words) The state Health Insurance Fund's (Terviseamet) budget deficit had been known about for many years, and politicians and experts have called for an overhaul in its financing model to cover the shortfall, which is partly the result of a falling…...
Expert: Health Insurance Fund summer days as the straw that broke the camel's back
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (433+ words) K'lli Taro, chair of Estonia's Public Sector Ethics Council, told Vikerraadio that the Health Insurance Fund's summer retreat was a symbolic last straw in a series of concerns about the agency's spending. According to Taro, the council is not convinced…...
Minister: Some Health Insurance Fund costs not easily tracked
9+ mon, 4+ day ago (402+ words) Minister of Social Affairs Karmen Joller acknowledged on the program "Uudis+" that some of the Health Insurance Fund's expenditures are not easily traceable and suggested it may be time to consider changes to the healthcare funding model. Several articles in…...
Family doctors' bumper profits raise questions about state support
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (511+ words) While the state Health Insurance Fund currently does not monitor doctors' business activity, it plans to change the current funding model starting next year in the context of financial shortages in healthcare at a time when some family doctors make…...