{"id":63557,"date":"2013-10-10T11:46:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T11:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2013\/10\/10\/239521\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:07:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:07:31","slug":"compulsory-health-insurance-could-be-introduced-in-armenia-in-a-couple-of-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2013\/10\/10\/63557\/","title":{"rendered":"Compulsory health insurance could be introduced in Armenia in a couple of years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, October 10. \/ ARKA \/.<\/strong> Compulsory health insurance could be introduced in Armenia in a couple of years, according to Arman Hovhannisyan, head of a department of Sil Insurance Company.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a news conference today he said the government\u2019s decision to pay for medical insurance, education and recreation of thousands of public servants, effective from 2012, can be regarded as a pilot project for the introduction of compulsory health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, it will become a new impetus for the development of the insurance market and the medical sphere.<\/p>\n<p>Hovhannisyan said the first steps have already been implemented by the government; in particular, it set up an inter-agency committee, which has already developed a single indicative price list for medical services.<\/p>\n<p>The next step, according to Hovhannisyan, should be development of national guidelines for application of single methods of medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, health minister Derenik Dumanyan said transition to public health insurance system is to be done in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Sil Insurance was established in 2000. In 2012 it was awarded a license for offering life insurance. &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compulsory health insurance could be introduced in Armenia in a couple of years, according to Arman Hovhannisyan, head of a department of Sil Insurance Company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12149,9216],"tags":[15837,12539,15891,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-63557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-insurance-market","8":"category-news","9":"tag-armenia-2","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-insurance-2","12":"tag-308"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}