Functions

The Health Insurance Fund is a legal person in public law. The Estonian Health Insurance Fund has been registered on August 30, 2002 in the National Register of Central and Local Government Agencies, registry code no. 74000091.

The supreme body of the Health Insurance Fund is the Supervisory Board.

In order to provide health insurance benefits, the Health Insurance Fund:

1) manages health insurance by ensuring the effective and purposeful use of health insurance money;

2) performs functions provided for by the Health Insurance Act of the Republic of Estonia and other legislative provisions;

3) maintain the database necessary for providing health insurance benefits and for the performance of other functions provided for by this Act;

4) examines the quality and necessity of services partially or fully compensated for by the Health Insurance Fund;

5) manages the performance of the international agreements concerning health insurance and the Health Insurance Fund;

6) participates in the planning of health care and gives opinions on the drafts of legislative provisions and of international agreements relating to the Health Insurance Fund and health insurance;

7) gives advice about issues related to health insurance.