09.23.2011

Romania’s Government will revise the package of state-insured healthcare benefits to exclude coverage of costly nonessential health services, which will be provided based on additional, including more

09.21.2011

Romania's Government on Wednesday approved the ordinance on the clawback system, which requires drug producers to pay a quarterly tax according to drug consumption. 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

09.16.2011

Private clinics fought for years over the budgets that large companies were willing to spend on healthcare services offered to employees, but now operators are discovering a less explored area, namely more

08.30.2011

Co-payment in Romanian healthcare will have a regulating effect, will optimize the patient's flow through the system and will reduce the unjustified use of certain services, such as hospital more

08.24.2011

Emergency room doctors who refuse to provide care to a patient in critical condition may be fined between 2,000 and 15,000 lei (EUR470-3530), depending on the consequences, Romania's Government more

08.18.2011

Stem cell collection and storage, the most dynamic niche of private healthcare services, has reached EUR15 million, and about 10% of parents choose such services for their newborns, according to a ZF more

08.17.2011

Romania's National Health Insurance House will remain autonomous and in charge of the healthcare budget, and its head will still be appointed by the prime minister, but it will acknowledge the health more

08.09.2011

The emergence of private health insurance houses, the possibility of selling state-owned hospitals, new regulations in the case of malpractice insurance, a basic services packages of EUR200 (per more

08.05.2011

Health minister Attila Cseke (the 14th minister in the last 20 years) on Thursday handed in his resignation, unhappy with the money he was allotted at the budget revision. Out of the EUR1 billion he more

08.04.2011

Alina Culcea, general manager of Actavis Romania, says the initially estimated 19% turnover decline for this year may deepen on some expected healthcare system measures. more

08.02.2011

Romania will assign 300 million lei (about EUR71 million) to healthcare at this year’s budget revision, will save RON150 million in the reserve fund for hospitals and will supplement loans by over more

08.01.2011

Romania's Government should replace the clawback tax in the healthcare system with a new version and implement the proposal for co-payment as soon as possible, Jeffrey Franks, head of the IMF more

07.31.2011

Romanian President Traian Basescu said Sunday, after the meeting with the IMF, European Commission and World Bank delegation, that the Government cannot increase the healthcare budget until the more

07.21.2011

The Romanian Alliance for Health (APSR) believes that arrears in the healthcare sector block the activity of unpaid suppliers, leading those that cannot self-finance to bankruptcy and denying equality more

06.30.2011

Romania will continue to charge drug distributors a tax clawback, in the form of quarterly contributions to the public healthcare system, in an amount to be set within 30 days. 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

06.09.2011

Romania’s private medical services market might grow by 15% this year, to some EUR500 million, as patients move from public to private healthcare system, according to Regina Maria - Reteaua privata more

06.09.2011

The Arcadia hospital in Iasi, opened last year after an investment of over EUR20 million, expects a turnover of EUR7 million in 2011, its first full year in business. more

05.29.2011

Romanian family doctors will not sign the new frame-contract with the National Health Insurance House unless it is adopted in the form agreed with the Health Ministry. more

05.25.2011

A&D Pharma, the biggest group in the Romanian pharmaceutical industry, invested around EUR5 million in the opening of four clinics and a lab in Bucharest under the Anima-brand, which employ 350 more

05.20.2011

Romanian local authorities will be allowed to set up multifunctional healthcare centers in communities where there are no inpatient hospitals, according to a bill drafted by the Health Ministry. more

05.16.2011

SIF Muntenia (SIF4.RO), which manages assets worth 1.5 billion lei (almost EUR360 million) and invests in over 150 companies, has completed a EUR12 million investment in a Pitesti hospital, a project more

05.09.2011

The Romanian Chamber of Deputies on Monday rejected the opposition’s simple motion targeting the Health Ministry. more

05.09.2011

More than one fifth of urban Romanians use private medical services and over two thirds of this group choose them for their better quality compared to public healthcare, according to a survey ordered more