The Dutch Healthcare Authority (Nederlandse Zorgautoriteit) is an agency of the Dutch
Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport ( nl, Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport; VWS) is the Dutch Ministry responsible for public health, health care, quality of life, social work and sport. The Ministry was created in 1951 as ...
, established by the
Healthcare Market Regulation Act 2006. It is based in Utrecht and has more than 400 employees.
It monitors the quality, accessibility and affordability, regulates the market in healthcare and advises the ministry.
It issued a warning to
Zilveren Kruis
Zilveren Kruis (Silver Cross) is a Dutch health insurance company, based in Leiden, which was founded in 1949. It is part of the Achmea group which was created in 1995 when it merged with the Avéro-Centraal Beheer Group.
The Ziekenhuis Sint Jan ...
, a Dutch health insurance company, in November 2018 about changes to their policies introduced retrospectively in January 2018.
In October 2018 it produced a report advising the ministry to move towards a contract which rewards outcomes that patients consider important, and which encourages more integrated care and aligns the interests of the hospital management with independent medical specialists.
It is investigating incentives offered by providers to switch insurance policies. SGGZ
Apeldoorn
Apeldoorn (; Dutch Low Saxon: ) is a municipality and city in the province of Gelderland in the centre of the Netherlands. It is located about 60 km east of Utrecht, 60 km west of Enschede, 25 km north of Arnhem and 35 km south of Zwolle. The ...
advertised a new
iPhone for patients who switch to a reimbursement policy, which entitles them to claim the full cost of treatment even if the provider does not have a contract with their insurer. Patients who did so and followed their 12-week addiction programme would get the latest
iPhone XR
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. The authority advised that this would encourage vulnerable patients to take out unnecessarily expensive policies.
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Medical and health organisations based in the Netherlands