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Table 4 Targeting and enrolment rules

From: State budget transfers to Health Insurance Funds for universal health coverage: institutional design patterns and challenges of covering those outside the formal sector in Eastern European high-income countries

Country

Targeting method applied

Responsible organization for identifying the eligible

Initiation of enrolment process

Croatia

Indirect targeting [50]

Local and central government [29]

n/a

Czech Republic

Indirect targeting [24]

Central government [24]

Active enrolment by the beneficiary [24]

Estonia

Indirect targeting [16]

Regional government [16]

Automatic enrolment by authorities [16]

Hungary

Indirect targeting and direct targeting (means testing) of people with very low income [17]

Local government [17]

Active enrolment by the beneficiary [52]

Poland

Indirect targeting and direct targeting (means testing) of people with low income [18]

Local government [18]

n/a

Slovakia

Indirect targeting [22]

Local government [22]

Active enrolment by the beneficiary [22]

Slovenia

Indirect targeting [23]

Local government [23]

n/a