09.24.2015

While medical service operators are optimistic about the market and even considering expanding abroad, distributors and retail pharmacy chains are not. more

03.12.2015

Wargha Enayati, founder of private healthcare provider Regina Maria, a major player on this market, estimates the Romanian healthcare subscription market reached 600,000 units, but its potential is more

02.04.2015

Nearly 93% of the Romanians have public healthcare insurance, 2% of the Romanians have private medical subscriptions fully or partially paid by the employer, while another 2% have a private healthcare more

11.24.2014

Romania’s private healthcare operator MedLife gave up Vital retail insurance developed jointly with Generali insurer, but announced it planned to launch two new products by yearend. more

09.19.2014

Health insurance, which has lagged behind on the private healthcare market, had a strong start to the year in 2014, as companies with over 54,000 employees signed contracts with insurance companies. more

05.12.2014

Confusion as to how many employees there are in Romania increased at the end of last week after a report of the National Trade Union Bloc, one of the most powerful trade union organizations in the more

09.24.2013

Romania’s private health insurance market is growing quickly, but service healthcare providers estimate most of their business will still come from corporate subscribers in the coming years. more

01.15.2013

With state-run hospitals losing patients, doctors and nurses to the private sector, the health minister has decided to suspend state financing to the private sector. But in the absence of competition, more

07.13.2012

The basic package under Romania's new healthcare law will no longer cover minor illnesses, but mainly major risks and serious disease, and the system will receive extra funding from mandatory car more

07.02.2012

Insurers and providers of private healthcare in Romania think that stipulating fully deductible private health insurance in the Tax Code is key to the continuation of reform in the healthcare system, more

02.17.2012

By the middle of this year, the Health Ministry will put up for public debate a new healthcare bill; as consultations with the public opinion are fully under way, so all options on the future more

01.03.2012

Of all the sectors in the economy, the healthcare sector is likely to be targeted by the most changes in 2012. The new health law, which will be debated over the course of this year, aims to more

12.28.2011

Romanians who fail to pay their health insurance contribution will receive medical care only in emergency situations, in infectious disease cases and for illnesses included in the national more

11.16.2011

Insurers should hike share capital by around EUR500 million, besides other expenses, to take part in Romania’s state healthcare reform, Frans van der Ent, general manager of insurance company Eureko more

10.07.2011

Every Romanian will choose from ten private health insurance houses that will compete against each other and will replace the National Health Insurance House (CNAS), the institution that collects more

09.21.2011

The Romanian National Health Insurance House's budget has been raised by the Government by 150 million lei (EUR35 million) and another RON25 million has been allotted to the national healthcare more

06.09.2011

Romania's private health insurance market could grow to EUR4-5 billion in a few years, from under EUR10 million at the moment, if authorities adopted the Dutch model, whereby almost the entire more