ASSPRO CEE 2007
Collaborative Focused Research Project
FP7-SSH-2007 Grant Agreement No.: 217431
Assessment of patient payment policies and projection of their efficiency, equity and quality effects:
The case of Central and Eastern Europe
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Project seminar on
Out-of-pocket Payments and Health Care Reforms in Europe
Monday - Wednesday, 16-18 May 2011
Corvinus University of Budapest, Fovám tér 8, 1093 Budapest, Hungary
ON-LINE SEMINAR PROCEEDINGS
Welcoming address from the host institution
László TRAUTMANN - Dean of Faculty of Economics; Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Welcoming address from the project coordinators
Wim GROOT - Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Welcoming address from the European Commission
María del Pilar GONZÁLEZ PANTALEÓN - Project Officer
SESSION 1: Keynote speakers - Health care reforms in Europe
Chaired by: Lászlo GULÁCSI - Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Presentation: “Quality improvement and cost containment in the Dutch health insurance system”
Wim GROOT - Maastricht University, the Netherlands
SESSION 3: Project results - Informal payments and health care consumers
Chaired by: Wim GROOT - Maastricht University, the Netherlands
SESSION 2: Keynote speakers - Corruption and informal patient payments
Chaired by: Wim GROOT - Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Presentation: “Fighting fraud in Europe: the challenges”
Paul VINCKE - European Healthcare Fraud and Corruption Network
Presentation: “Informal payments in health care. Polish perspective and experiences”
Stanislawa GOLINOWSKA - Uniwersytet Jagiellonski Collegium Medicum, Poland
Presentation: “Who is willing and already paying? Hungarian results on willingness to pay and informal payments for health care services"
Ms. Petra BAJI - Center for Public Affairs Studies Foundation, Hungary
Presentation: “Public attitudes towards informal patient payments in six CEE countries”
Ms. Tetiana STEPURKO - School of Public Health, Ukraine
Presentation: “Paying formally or informally? Eliciting preferences for physician services in Ukraine using discrete choice experiment"
Andriy DANYLIV - School of Public Health, Ukraine
SESSION 4: Keynote speakers - Health care reforms in Hungary
Chaired by: Imre BONCZ - University of Pécs, Institute for Health Insurance, Hungary
SESSION 6: Project results - Ability to pay for health care in CEE countries
Chaired by: Milena PAVLOVA - Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Presentation: “Health care reforms in Hungary: past experiences, current situation and plans for the future”
Imre BONCZ - University of Pécs, Institute for Health Insurance, Hungary
Presentation: “The catastrophic and impoverishing effect of household health care spending in Serbia"
Jelena ARSENIJEVIC - Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Presentation: “The failed attempt to introduce copayments in Hungary”
Péter MIHÁLYI - University of Pannonia, Central European University, Hungary
Presentation: “The impoverishment effect of health care expenditures in Albania"
Sonila TOMINI - Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Presentation: “Inability to pay for health care in six CEE countries"
Marzena TAMBOR - Uniwersytet Jagiellonski Collegium Medicum, Poland
Presentation: “20 years of transition: experience and challenges in health financing in Lithuania"
Liubove MURAUSKIENE - Public Enterprise “MTVC”, Lithuania
Presentation: “Trends in out-of-pocket expenditure in the European Union”
Bernd RECHEL - European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
SESSION 5: Project results - Health care reforms in CEE countries
Chaired by: Wim GROOT - Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Presentation: “Out-of-pocket payments for health care and the health care reform in Bulgaria"
Elka ATANASOVA - Medical University of Varna, Bulgaria
Presentation: “Monetisation of natural benefits in the Russian Federation"
Vladimir S. GORDEEV - Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Presentation: “An update on the implementation of patient co-payments in Romania”
Constanta MIHAESCU PINTIA - SNSPMPDS, Romania
Last update: March 2012
CLOSURE PROJECT SEMINAR
Chaired by: Milena PAVLOVA - Maastricht University, the Netherlands
PRE-SEMINAR POLICY DEBATE
Chaired by: Frits van MERODE - Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Presentation project policy brief: “Is there a place for an increased reliance on patient charges
in Central and Eastern European countries?”
Frits van MERODE - Maastricht University, the Netherlands
OPENING PROJECT SEMINAR
Chaired by: Lászlo GULÁCSI - Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
