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.