[Economic stimulation as a factor of enhancing the effectiveness of health care]. / Ekonomicheskoe stimulirovanie kak faktor povysheniia éffektivnosti meditsinskoi pomoshchi.

How to achieve a higher efficiency in managing the activities of the subjects of the compulsory health insurance (CHI) system is considered in the paper. In the authors' opinion, they are, to a considerable extent, caused by the existing economic levers aimed at optimizing the activities of its main subjects such as medical service producers and purchasers. The results of introduction of economic stimulation mechanisms into practice of the CHI system are given. These mechanisms used on a specific territory may enhance the total level of efficiency of the activities of therapeutical-and-prophylactic institutions and insurers.