The National Health Insurance House (CNAS) has to pay 4.1 billion lei for medical leave allowances, which also includes outstanding payments in the last two years. Most days were taken for breeding problems.
Most days were taken for breeding problems.
According to CNAS, the outstanding payment obligations representing medical leave allowances due to natural and legal persons, are presented as follows:
“The total value of the payment obligations includes both the outstanding amounts of the previous years and the new obligations registered during the year, taking into account the continuous flow of medical leave. Thus, the value of the payment obligations at the beginning and end of each year reflect both the outstanding payments and the payments for the medical leave allowances granted in that year ”informed the Health House.
According to her, the notion of medical leave is not synonymous with the medical leave certificate. For the same medical leave, several medical leave certificates can be issued, one “initial” and the other “continued”, both according to the evolution of the respective condition, and as a result of the fact that the certificate is issued only for a maximum duration of one calendar month (for example, for a pregnancy and leaving leave, which has a total period of 126 days).
Thus, not all the days of medical leave are supported from the fnas. In accordance with the provisions of art. 12 of GEO no. 158/2005, the allowances for temporary incapacity for work are supported by the employer, from the first day to the 5th day of temporary incapacity for work, except for the allowances related to the medical leave certificates granted to the insured persons for which the measure of isolation was established, according to Law no. 136/2020.
Almost 4.6 million days for “reproductive reasons”
Regarding the disease codes for which medical certificates were issued in 2024, the situation is as follows:
The situation of the medical leave certificates and the number of benefits incurred from the Unique National Health Insurance Fund (FNUASS) for the years 2023 and 2024 is as follows:
