From 2012 to 2018, the State paid over €20 million to private healthcare institutions for providing health services to the citizens. According to the analysis of Montenegro’s Health Insurance Fund, FZO, this was the right thing to do as they managed to solve the problems of waiting too long for health services, the waiting lists and there have been less patients sent to treatments abroad, writes Dnevne Novine daily.
On the other hand, head of the FZO, Mr Sead Čirgić, explains that this analysis at the same time shows that additional efforts should be put in strengthening capacities in order to be able to provide certain health services within the public system.
The analysis encompassed health services that were mostly required in the above-mentioned period (2012-2018) and that were recognized as ‘scarce’ due to the limited capacities in the healthcare system. The document suggested contracts were mostly concluded with the private healthcare institutions in the field of ophthalmology – ambulance and hospital services, orthopedics – knee and hip surgery and knee arthroscopy, radiological diagnostics – magnetic resonance, as well as the pathological anatomy and histology, hyperbaric oxygen therapy and In vitro fertilization.
