National Health Insurance Fund

The National Health Insurance Fund or another institution of the Lithuanian health care system could take over the responsibility for the e-health servers, Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga said on Friday.

The Lithuanian Health Ministry starts ranking the performance of country's hospitals and other healthcare facilities based certain criteria.

Neurosurgeons from Kaunas Clinics in Lithuania's second largest city of Kaunas are very happy with the gamma knife they've been using for the past six months, and hope for its economic return over the next couple of years.

Five orthopedic product retailers in Lithuania are suspected of defrauding the National Health Insurance Fund (VLK) of at least 1 million euros, the Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) said on Friday.

521 children have been born after assisted insemination in Lithuania over the past two years, figures from the National Health Insurance funds showed on Wednesday.

Lithuania and Latvia have issued a joint international tender to purchase a pneumococcal vaccine, the Lithuanian National Health Insurance Fund said on Tuesday.

After causing an uproar by warning thousands of people to pay overdue compulsory health insurance contributions or face sanctions, the Lithuanian state-run social insurance fund Sodra said on Friday that it will wait for a month before taking action to recover the arrears.

Lithuanian citizens and foreigners must pay for the compulsory health insurance (PSD) only if they are permanently residing in Lithuania, said Lithuania’s State Tax Inspectorate (VMI).

For over a year Lithuanians have been able to seek for medical treatment abroad. Nonetheless, people choose to be treated in Lithuania or in neighbouring countries offering similar prices. In one year and two months 53 people sought treatment abroad and submitted compensation applications to Territo...

Lithuanian institutions are making final arrangements for the Baltic states’ joint tender to purchase a tuberculosis vaccine for newborns.