Branch and sub-branch offices

NHIF branch office conducts the following activities:

•    implements compulsory health insurance within its territory;
•    plans needs of insured persons in its territory and develops activity plans in accordance with available financial resources and the financial plan of the National Health Insurance Fund;
•    disposes of transferred funds for the enforcement of compulsory health insurance for insured persons in its territory, in accordance with the law;
•    ensures the exercise of health insurance rights if insured persons in its territory, in accordance with the law and regulations adopted for the law enforcement;
•    enters into contracts with health care providers;
•    organizes and controls contractual obligations of healthcare providers, to protect the rights of insured persons;
•    provides legal, purposeful and economical use of the transferred funds of compulsory health insurance in its territory;
•    keeps master records of insured persons with the information necessary for the enforcement of compulsory health insurance for securing and controlling the exercise of health insurance rights;
•    exercises control of registration/deregistration for insurance, change of insurance, as well as control of all data relevant to acquisition, exercise and termination of rights;
•    keep records and monitors the collection of contributions with the competent authorities, exchanges information with the competent authorities regarding health insurance contributions, as well as other information related to contributions;
•    provides necessary technical assistance to insured persons in connection with the enforcement of compulsory health insurance and protection of their interests;
•    performs certain tasks in the implementation of international agreements on health insurance;
•    provides working conditions for the first-instance and second-instance medical committees in its territory, in accordance with the deeds of the National Health Insurance Fund;
•    conducts activities related to indemnification procedures in the enforcement of the compulsory health insurance;
•    perform certain activities of voluntary health insurance;
•    calculates, controls and makes payment of salaries and other cash proceeds under health insurance coverage and keeps proper records;
•    controls enforcement of rights under compulsory health insurance coverage.

Republic Fund of Health Insurance
Jovana Marinovića 2
11040 Belgrade
Telephone: +381 11 2053830
Fax: +381 11 2645042; +381 11 2688420
e-mail: public@rfzo.rs