Financing of health care services in Hungary — Boncz 2004

In this essay, we provide a detailed analysis of the adjustments made to Hungary's health care funding system. We discuss how general practitioners, home care (nursing), outpatient care, and the acute and chronic care provided by institutions are all financed. We demonstrate the ways in which the 1990 political changes have affected the financial sector. The 1980s' "global budget approach" was replaced by "performance-related financing methods," which included the WHO's (World Health Organization) ICPM (International Classification of Procedures in Medicine) code system for outpatient care and the introduction of HBCS ("Homogeneous Disease Groups") for inpatient care. We stress that an activity-related financing system was created as a consequence of the efforts made to reform health care financing.

Boncz, I., Nagy, J., Sebestyén, A., & Kőrösi, L. (2004). Financing of health care services in Hungary. The European Journal of Health Economics, Formerly: HEPAC, 5(3), 252–258. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-004-0228-3