Last Thursday, the National Association of Insurers of Ukraine held a working meeting with Minister of Health Viktor Liashko, Chairman and Member of the Committee on National Health, Medical Care and Health Insurance Mykhailo Radutskyi and Dmytro Gurin, representatives of insurers and insurance intermediaries.
The meeting was a continuation of the ongoing cooperation within the framework of the Memorandum of Cooperation to promote the development of voluntary health insurance in Ukraine for the costs associated with the provision of medicines and medical devices.
The NASU, whose members are also leaders in the field of voluntary health insurance, is an active participant in promoting and improving cooperation between insurers and the state in the field of health insurance. In its activities, the Association consistently advocates the need for information exchange of medical data, simplification of the procedure for settling insurance claims, and the use of tax incentives for voluntary health insurance.
At the meeting, Denis Yastreb, CEO of the NASU, noted the active position of the Ministry of Health to engage insurers in healthcare financing and thanked Minister of Health Viktor Liashko for the Ministry’s willingness to publish open data that can also be used by insurers to improve insurance products, their accessibility and promotion.
The participation of insurers in health insurance is part of the Recovery Plan for Ukraine, and the NASU believes that insurers will be able to become reliable partners of the state not only in financing healthcare expenditures, but also in developing an adequate approach to the nation’s health, introducing evidence-based medicine and treatment protocols, reducing the population’s spending on medicines, and, undoubtedly, becoming an element of Ukraine’s post-war recovery.
