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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FINAL PROJECT CONFERENCE
EQUITY AND EFFICIENCY EFFECTS OF
OUT-OF-POCKET PAYMENTS IN EUROPE
Monday - Tuesday, 3-4 December 2012
Best Western Hotel, Konstitucijos pr. 14, LT-09308 Vilnius, Lithuania, Tel: +370 52 739595
Hosting organisation: Public Enterprise “MTVC” (training, research and development centre)
Antakalnio str. 22B, LT-10305 Vilnius, Lithuania
ON-LINE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Welcoming address from the host institution
Liubove MURAUSKIENE - Public Enterprise “MTVC”, Lithuania
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: The role of formal co-payments in the public health care sector
Chaired by: Wim GROOT - Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Presentation: “Limits to lifestyle solidarity”
Wim GROOT - Maastricht University, the Netherlands
SESSION 3: Out-of-pocket payments as an incentive for efficiency and healthy life style
Chaired by: Liubove MURAUSKIENE - Public Enterprise “MTVC”, Lithuania
SESSION 2: Out-of-pocket payments and health system reforms
Chaired by: Bernd RECHEL - European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Presentation: “Health system reforms, austerity measures and out-of-pocket payments”
Paul VINCKE - European Healthcare Fraud and Corruption Network
Presentation: “Equity in out-of-pocket payments during the period of health care reforms"
Ms. Petra BAJI - Center for Public Affairs Studies Foundation, Hungary
Presentation: “Patterns of informal patient payments in six CEE countries”
Ms. Tetiana STEPURKO - School of Public Health, Ukraine
Presentation: “Eliciting willingness to pay for physician services in six CEE countries"
Andriy DANYLIV - School of Public Health, Ukraine
SESSION 4: Informal patient payments in CEE countries
Chaired by: Paul VINCKE - European Healthcare Fraud and Corruption Network
SESSION 6: Discussion of EU policy brief
Chaired by: Milena PAVLOVA - Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Presentation: “Current attempts to eliminate informal payments in Hungary”
Peter GAAL - Semmelweis University, Hungary
Presentation: “The role of informal patient payments in the delivery of maternity care in Serbia"
Jelena ARSENIJEVIC - Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Presentation: “Paying informally for health care in Albania: scarce resources or governance failure?"
Sonila TOMINI - Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Presentation: “Public coverage in times of crisis”
Bernd RECHEL - European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
SESSION 5: Willingness and ability to pay for health care services
Chaired by: Wim GROOT - Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Presentation: “Informal payments in Bulgaria - their significance after 10 years of co-payments"
Elka ATANASOVA - Medical University of Varna, Bulgaria
Presentation: “Poverty effects of out-of-pocket payments in the Russian Federation"
Vladimir S. GORDEEV - Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Presentation: “Patient payments in Romania: between willingness and burden”
Constanta MIHAESCU PINTIA - SNSPMPDS, Romania
Last update: February 2013
CLOSURE PROJECT CONFERENCE
Reflection on project results by policy experts
OPENING PROJECT CONFERENCE
Chaired by: Liubove MURAUSKIENE - Public Enterprise “MTVC”, Lithuania
Presentation: “Stakeholders’ opinion on formal co-payments for health care services"
Marzena TAMBOR - Uniwersytet Jagiellonski Collegium Medicum, Poland
Presentation: “From competition to non-competition and out-of-pocket payments in Georgia"
Tengiz VERULAVA - Ilia State University, Georgia
Presentation: “Out-of-pocket payments in Lithuania: experience and policy challenges"
Liubove MURAUSKIENE - Public Enterprise “MTVC”, Lithuania
Presentation: “The impact of out-of-pocket payments on prevention and health life style”
Reza REZAYATMAND - Maastricht University, the Netherlands
