04.01.2016

Life insurer NN Asigurari de Viata announced it will enter the health insurance segment on April 7, on World Health Day. more

01.11.2016

The number of large companies switching from clinic memberships to private medical insurance for their employees increased last year and the upward trend might continue in 2016, as well, following the more

10.01.2015

The Romanian Businessmen Association (AOAR) plan to ask the prime minister and the finance minister Tuesday, October 6, to issue an emergency ordinance aimed at removing the payment of health more

07.20.2015

Romania’s insurers are targeting the health insurance policies segment, on the backdrop of higher deduction threshold as of 2016. They forecast an annual growth of underwritten premiums by 20%-25%, more

06.29.2015

Romanian companies underwrote health insurance premiums of 22 million lei in the first quarter, up 25% compared with the same period a year before, according to data of Financial Supervision Authority more

03.04.2015

Companies with almost 53,000 employees, led by Dacia and Petrom, Romania’s biggest businesses, have switched to private health insurance over the past year and other companies are also mulling this more

02.18.2015

All income earners will have to pay social security and health insurance contributions and starting 2017, the social security tax rate will be lowered from 10.5% to 7.5%, for employees, and from 15.8% more

11.24.2014

Romania’s private healthcare operator MedLife gave up Vital retail insurance developed jointly with Generali insurer, but announced it planned to launch two new products by yearend. more

11.13.2014

Insurers Asirom, Groupama, Omniasig and Asito Kapital have submitted bids to provide voluntary health insurance to the nearly 6,400 employees of state-owned gas producer Romgaz Medias. more

09.19.2014

Health insurance, which has lagged behind on the private healthcare market, had a strong start to the year in 2014, as companies with over 54,000 employees signed contracts with insurance companies. more

09.16.2014

Omniasig, the third largest insurer in Romania, and the local subsidiary of Germany's Signal Iduna will issue an employee benefits-type health insurance policy for the almost 20,000 employees of the more

09.05.2014

Romanian state-owned postal operator Posta Romana and the country's health insurance house CNAS signed an agreement at the government headquarters Friday whereby Posta Romana will distribute health more

07.28.2014

Romania’s Health Minister Nicolae Banicioiu said Monday that health contributions will not be increased either this year or in the upcoming years, adding the government held no talks on the issue. more

05.07.2014

About 15,000 doctors have left Romania so far and the number of doctors per 1,000 people stands at less than 1.9, which means fewer than in the Republic of Moldova. more

04.17.2014

Drug wholesaler Farmaceutica Remedia Deva (RMAH.RO) says the state’s decision to pay its health system arrears under IMF pressures brought to the surface the pharmacies that are struggling and more

04.03.2014

BCR Asigurari de Viata will provide health insurance services for the 5,000 employees of Romanian natural gas pipeline operator Transgaz Medias (TGN.RO) for the next for years, under a EUR4.94 more

01.05.2014

In 2013 all eyes were on the Health Ministry as far as the healthcare system is concerned, while the private sector came with several surprise transactions. more

12.29.2013

The next year "looks like it will be a good year" for MedLife, according to chairman Mihai Marcu, whose main two projects for 2014 are expansion to all major cities and implementation of a health care more

12.20.2013

The institutions in charge of pensions, health insurance and highways, which have total budgets of over EUR17 billion, are run by three executives who have been politically appointed by ruling more

10.11.2013

The private medical service market, which was almost non-existent ten years ago, reached EUR521 million last year and has been among the fastest growing sectors in the last few years. more

09.24.2013

Romania’s private health insurance market is growing quickly, but service healthcare providers estimate most of their business will still come from corporate subscribers in the coming years. more

09.18.2013

People gaining income from rents will have to pay health care contributions of 5.5%, according to a government emergency decree approved Wednesday, people close to the matter told MEDIAFAX. more

09.13.2013

Romanians who obtain revenues from home rental will pay health insurance contributions of at most 611 lei (EUR136) per month in 2013, according to a bill drawn up by the Finance Ministry. more

07.14.2013

Romania’s Government will notify anticorruption prosecutors of irregularities in awarding the contract for national healthcare cards by former National Health Insurance House (CNAS) president Lucian more

06.27.2013

Romania is working to implement the EU directive allowing cross-border medical services under national health insurance and authorities hope to avoid an exodus of Romanians choosing treatment abroad. more