Hungarian Health Funds See Rising Membership Payments In H1

  • 2 Aug 2016 9:00 AM
Hungarian Health Funds See Rising Membership Payments In H1
Health funds runs by OTP, MKB and Generali all saw a rise in membership payments in the first half of the year, according to data provided by the companies. OTP Health Fund’s individual membership payments rose by an annual 14% to 1.4 billion forints in H1 2016. Employers made a further 2.7 billion forints of payments, bringing combined payments to 4.1 billion forints in the first six months of the year.

OTP Health Fund has 233,000 members. Individual payments at MKB Health Fund rose by 17% to 1.1 billion forints, but payments by employers were down by 1% at 2.6 billion.

The combined payment of 3.7 billion forints in H1 was up by 4.1% compared to the same period last year. The fund has almost 178,000 members.

Generali Health Fund had 700 million forints of combined payments, up by 50 million compared with H1 2015. Members made 364 million forints of payments while employers made 336 million.

Generali Health Fund has over 28,000 members.

Republished with permission of Hungary Matters, MTI’s daily newsletter.

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