Organization of medical and economic control of the volume and cost of medical care in the system of compulsory health insurance in 2021

The article is devoted to the current problem of interaction in fulfilling the obligations of all participants of compulsory health insurance to pay for and provide medical care in accordance with the amendments made to Federal Law No. 326-FL of 29 November 2010 (as amended on 08 December 2020) «On Compulsory Health Insurance in the Russian Federation» and entered into force on January 1, 2021. The authors focus on the issue of granting of the territorial compulsory health insurance fund new powers to conduct medical and economic control and abolishing these powers from medical insurance organizations. According to the amendments, all volumes of medical care provided to the insured population of the subject of the Russian Federation, both on the territory of insurance and outside it, as well as medical care provided outside the territory of insurance, are the subject of medical and economic control by the territorial fund. Starting from 2021, the form of the contract for the provision and payment of medical care for compulsory health insurance, approved by Order of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation No. 1417n of 30 December 2020, has also changed. Unlike the previous form of contract concluded between an insurance medical organization and a medical organization, the current document provides for the participation of three parties in contractual relations: the territorial fund, insurance medical organizations, medical organizations. The agreement contains provisions providing for the obligation of the territorial fund to carry out medical and economic control of registers of accounts and accounts submitted by medical organizations to pay for medical care provided within the framework of the basic and territorial compulsory health insurance programs. The article presents the results of the control carried out with the analysis of the identified violations in the provision by medical organizations of the Ryazan region of invoices and registers of invoices for payment of medical care provided for January 2021, identifies problematic points in the information interaction between participants of compulsory insurance in the implementation of this function of the territorial fund.