Health Care Finance Centre

The Health Care Finance Centre does applied scientific and analytical research into the issues relating to public expenditures on health care and methodology of their efficiency improvement, studies the experience of foreign countries in developing health care patterns (budget, social insurance, private), draws up a comprehensive strategy in health care involving the issues relating to financing and implementing structural and institutional reforms.
The Centre provides the Russian Federation Ministry of Finance with expert and methodological support in improving the efficiency of public expenditures on health care.

The objective of R&D carried out by the Health Care Finance Centre is to develop an effective health care pattern and methodology of improving the efficiency of public expenditures on health care.

In compliance with the stated objectives the priority spheres of the Centre's activity are as follows:

• the analysis of the effective practice of the budget and insurance financing of the health care system;
• the search for the ways of optimizing the existing social insurance pattern of the Russian Federation health care;
• the development of approaches to improving the efficiency of the compulsory and voluntary health insurance system;
• the development and justification of the current approaches to financing innovative medical technologies using the schemes of risk sharing;
• the main priority spheres of improving the system of the Russian Federation health care and drug provision financing.

The main research priorities of the Centre's activity conform to inquiries and orders of the Russian Federation Ministry of Finance.

The highly qualified team consisting of three Doctors of Medicine and one Ph.D. in Economics is working in the Centre.

Head of the Centre – Vitaly Vladimirovich Omelyanovsky, Doctor of Medicine