NEWS
23/03/2026
08:46
Berek:
Overperformance Means Hospitals Provide More Services Than Agreed. Should We Pay 100% for Services Beyond the Contract, or Say It's Unfair?
- The National Health Fund (NFZ) agrees with a hospital: 'I will pay you for a specified number of services' and signs a contract. The hospital fulfills this contract, exhausts the services foreseen in it, and then continues to provide them. Why? Because so-called overperformances have always been paid for. So, in essence, it doesn't matter how many services we agreed upon; the NFZ signs these contracts within its budget - said Maciej Berek on 'Gość Radia ZET'.
- Overperformance means a hospital provides more services than it agreed to. And now the question is - should we pay 100% for what was done beyond the contract, or should we say: 'this is not fair'? It's not fair that we agree with you on X, and you do twice X and say: 'please pay me for everything'. Because in essence, what is this contract then? - he stated.
- A mechanism that would involve reducing the price for so-called overperformances, thereby reducing hospitals' motivation for these overperformances, is a mechanism that, in my opinion, has some rationality to it - he assessed.
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