The bill’s explanatory note says the measure radically changes the way hospitals operate, allowing them to access extra financing, by taking out loans or merging the revenue resources of several healthcare institutions.
Hospitals may associate or merge, may sign service supply contracts with one or several health insurers, as well as healthcare services collaboration contracts with other providers, including in the primary or ambulatory care sectors, reads the document.
The new healthcare bill was put up for public debate Wednesday on the Health Ministry’s website, www.ms.ro. Suggestions may be sent in for the next ten days, but the bill’s text will remain online until January 28, 2012.