23 November 2020 15:32

The Rules of Remuneration of Health Workers have been amended

By the relevant decision of the State Agency on Mandatory Health Insurance, the Rules of remuneration of health workers employed by health facilities under the jurisdiction of the Public Legal Entity Administration of the Regional Medical Divisions have been amended.

According to the Rules, the remuneration of medical workers includes official (tariff) salaries, allowances paid for working conditions, incentive allowances and other payments provided for in the Labor Code. Incentive allowances for health workers are provided in the form of monthly fixed or monthly incentive allowances depending on the position and the nature of the work carried out based on the performance.

According to the amendment, the number of specializations / positions on fixed incentive allowances for medical workers has been increased and new version has been approved. According to the previous rules, doctors were paid a fixed monthly incentive on 9 specializations / positions, but as a result of the amendment this number has been increased to 16.

In addition, the amount of fixed incentive allowances for a number of specializations / positions is determined depending on the performance of medical facilities. Thus, medical facilities are divided into 3 groups (groups 1, 2 and 3).

Table 1

With the exception of items 6, 9 and 14 in Table 1, other items shall enter into force on January 21, 2020. Paragraph 9 shall enter into force on January 1, 2020, and paragraphs 6 and 14 shall enter into force on October 26, 2020.

Monthly incentives are given to doctors to measure and evaluate the services provided on their specialization / position. Taking into account the optimal workload and working hours, the upper quantitative limit of doctors' services is limited, and allowances are not paid for medical services exceeding the upper quantitative limit. According to the changes, in addition to resuscitation doctors, doctors working in intensive care and anesthesiology, intensive care units are given allowances in the amount of 30 manat per night shift and 5 manat for each patient receiving medical care during the night shift.

Taking into account the characteristics of the services provided by nursing staff and junior health workers, incentive allowances to their monthly salaries (tariffs) are set in the form of fixed monthly allowances, depending on the position they hold. According to the amendment, monthly fixed allowances for two positions were determined based on the classification group of health facilities. Thus, in accordance with paragraph 19.1 of the Rules, changes were made to lines 6 and 9 in Table 2. According to the decision, these changes will come into force on January 1, 2020.

Table 2

Also, changes were made to the classification group for monthly incentive allowances payable to the management of medical facilities and non-medical staff (paragraph 16-4 of the Rules). The monthly incentive allowances payable to the management of medical facilities and non-medical staff will come into force on January 21, 2020. All other items mentioned in the decision will come into force on October 26, 2020.