From January 1, the Institute of Health Insurance and Reinsurance of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina assumed responsibility for the process of biomedically assisted fertilization and planned the implementation of the Expenditure Program for Biomedically Assisted Fertilization (BMPO).
This program which will cost 10 million BAM was adopted this week by the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“Based on that, we can start implementing the aforementioned Program, within which the approved funds are distributed for the financing of health services related to the realization of the right to infertility treatment by BMPO in the territory of the Federation of BiH. The purpose of the Program is the treatment of BMPO infertility in health institutions in the Federation of BiH with which a contract has been concluded,” the director of the FBiH Institute of Health Insurance and Reinsurance Vlatka Martinović told FENA.
The goal of the program is to enable patients’ rights, after determining that pregnancy cannot be achieved by other means of treatment.
“As a rule, women up to the age of 42, who are married or in common law marriage, have the right to this treatment from the budget of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This right applies to three attempts at intrauterine insemination, in accordance with medical indications and guidelines, and to five attempts at in vitro fertilization,” said Martinović.
Also, the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted the Rulebook on the scope of the right to biomedically assisted fertilization from this year’s budget, the method of forming the price of individual procedures of biomedically assisted fertilization, criteria and methods of contracting, as well as other issues of importance for the implementation of biomedically assisted fertilization.
