The Romanian government decided yesterday in a government meeting to extend until the end of 2020 a series of very important measures that were taken at the beginning of the year, they are the following:
"granting all persons in the territory of Romania and supporting from the FNUASS budget medical services and medicines for the treatment of COVID-19 cases and their complications
contracting by health insurance companies of the entire amount allocated by the National Health Insurance House for hospital medical services
maintaining the method of monthly settlement for health units with beds that provide hospital medical services, in a continuous hospitalization regime, without the need for a regularization of trimesters II, III and IV
settlement of medical services provided in primary health care units and specialized clinical ambulatory at the level of activity actually performed, but no more than 8 consultations/hour/doctor
medical consultations provided in primary health care and specialized outpatient clinics, including some related services necessary for the medical act, can also be provided remotely, using any means of communication
the possibility for family doctors to prescribe for chronic patients restricted medicines from the List containing the international common names corresponding to the medicines from which the insured benefit, with or without a personal contribution, on the basis of medical prescription in the social health insurance system, as well as the corresponding international common names medicines that are granted within the national health programs, approved by Government Decision no. 720/2008, with subsequent amendments and additions
settlement at the achieved level of the services provided by the specialized units, which provide emergency consultations at home and unassisted medical transport, in a contractual relationship with the health insurance companies, provided they exceed the contracted level
the possibility of supplementing the amounts contracted with the health insurance companies with the providers of paraclinical medical services, for the paraclinical investigations carried out on an outpatient basis, necessary for the monitoring of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 after discharge from the hospital
settlement at the achieved level of medical care services at home and palliative care services at home, provided they exceed the contracted level
the settlement of the medical services provided by sanatoriums/sanatorium departments in hospitals, which carry out activity, at the level of the indicators achieved within the limit of the contract value, if the expenses actually incurred are covered or, as the case may be, at the level of the expenses actually incurred, within the limit of the contract value, in the situation in which the value of the achieved indicators is less than or equal to the level of expenses actually achieved, without the need for a regularization of quarters II, III and IV
maintaining the validity of referral tickets for clinical specialties, including those for the specialty of physical medicine and rehabilitation, referral tickets for paraclinical specialties, medical recommendations for medical devices, technologies and assistive devices, as well as approval decisions for the procurement of medical devices, technologies and assistive devices, whose validity expires by December 31, 2020."
