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● introduces budget cuts
● leaves the principles of the payment system unaltered
● modifies hospital payment by weighing performance according to the level of care
and speciality
● determines that the Minister of Welfare define capacities to be contracted by the
NHIFA (Article 10, section 2)
10. Government Decree No. 103/1995. (VIII. 25.) Korm. on Certain Aspects of the
Social Insurance Financing of Health Services
● describes of the payment system of various services in detail
11. Decree No. 26 /1995 (IX. 3.) NM of the Minister of Welfare on School Health Services
12. Act XCVI of 1995 on insurance institutions and insurance activities
(promulgated: 24/11/1995)
13. Ruling No. 77/1995. (XII. 21.) AB of the Constitutional Court
● finds the process of defining health care capacities under territorial supply
obligation unconstitutional
14. Act CXVII of 1995 on Personal Income Tax (promulgated: 22/12/1995)
1996
● introduces tax rebates for the purchase of voluntary, not-for-profit health insurance
(Article 35, section 2; Article 44/A, Section 1/b).
1. Act XIV of 1996 on the 1996 Budget of the Social Insurance Funds (promulgated:
29/03/1996) and Government Decree No. 61/1996. (IV. 26.) Korm.
● reintroduces dental services into the social insurance benefit package with
some co-payments
2. Act XL of 1996 on the Implementation of the Social Insurance Funds’ Budget of 1994
(promulgated: 22/05/1996)
● defines hospice care as a separate service category (Annex 6)
3. Act XLVII of 1996 on the Amendment of Act LXXXIV of 1991 on the Self Governance
of Social Insurance (promulgated: 07/06/1996)
● curtails the rights of the Self Government of Health Insurance concerning
budgetary decisions
4. Act LXIII of 1996 on the Obligation of Supply of Health Services and the Regional
Supply Norms (promulgated: 23/07/1996)
● determines health care capacity per county in terms of hospital beds and consultation
hours which local governments are obliged to supply and the NHIFA to contract for
(territorial supply obligation)
5. Government Decree No. 113/1996. (VII. 23.) Korm. on Licences for Supplying Health
Care Services
● updates the health care provider licensing system
6. Decree No. 19/1996. (VII. 26.) NM of the Minister of Welfare on Minimum Standards of
Certain Institutions Providing Health Services
● regulates minimum standards for specialist service providers in terms of buildings,
equipment, personnel requirements
7. Decree No. 20/1996. (VII. 26.) NM of the Minister of Welfare on Home Care