NEAK

National Institute of Health Insurance Fund Management

Country
Hungary
Address
Váci út 73/A, 1139 Budapest
Phone: +36 1 350 20 01
Risks and Benefits
Sickness benefits - Maternity benefits - Occupational diseases insurance - Invalidity benefits

European Social and Health Policy focus

Homogenous international coding of interventions

International price information of interventions

Future models of healthcare systems

Reimbursement techniques

Benchmarking

Revenue collection

Financial sustainability of healthcare systems

HTA

Cross-border healthcare activities

Mesurement of efficiency of given interventions or drugs

Aim, structure and tasks of the organization

In the Hungarian single-payer system,NEAK as a central government agency carries out the tasks relating to the mangement of the National Health Fund. It is supervised by the Minister of Human Resources.

The core activity of NEAK is the reimbursement of the operational costs for healthcare services. We cover only benefits in kind to all insured persons, such as preventive examinations, primary healthcare, specialisied inpatient care, specialised outpatient care, certain dental care, rehabilitation, the ambulance service, patient transport and accident-related benefits, drug reimbursement, reimbursement for medicl aids, medical spa services, reimbursement of travel expenses and benefits granted on grounds of equity.