“On October the 31st this year, the due obligations of the Croatian Health Insurance Institute/Fund (HZZO) to pharmacies amounted to almost EUR 153 million. The obligations of hospitals to pharmacies amounted to a staggering EUR 541 million, of which a total of EUR 377 million was due, wit...
Health providers were contracted by the state insurance fund and paid only for providing the determined standard of services. Limiting services was thus established as a control mechanism, mainly in primary health care, and doctors became responsible for any overuse of services. Cost sharing (co...
Data on antibiotic prescribing practices for this study were provided by the Croatian Health Insurance Fund. The analysis included the number of prescriptions, packages, cost, and the World Health Organization's defined daily dose per 1000 inhabitants (DID) per day as an objective utilization for ...