Free medical care

In accordance with the Federal Law of November 21, 2011 No. 323-FZ “On the Fundamentals of Protecting the Health of Citizens in the Russian Federation”, the Government of Russia annually approves a program of state guarantees for the free provision of medical care to citizens for a period of three years (for the next financial year and for the planning period) .

The purpose of the Program is to ensure the constitutional rights of citizens to medical care at the expense of the financial resources of all budgets of the budgetary system, including the budgets of the compulsory medical insurance funds (CHI).

The program establishes a list of types, forms and conditions of free medical care, a list of diseases and conditions in which medical care is provided free of charge, average standards for the volume of medical care, average standards for financial costs per unit of medical care, average per capita financing standards, the procedure and structure for the formation tariffs for medical care and methods of payment, requirements for territorial programs of state guarantees of free provision of medical care to citizens in terms of determining the procedure, conditions for its provision, criteria for accessibility and quality, a more detailed list of services can be found at official website of MGFOMS http://www.mgfoms.ru/ 

• Federal Law of November 21, 2011 No. 323-FZ "On the basics of protecting the health of citizens in the Russian Federation" 

• Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of December 28, 2023 No. 2353 “On the Program of State Guarantees for the provision of free medical care to citizens for 2024 and the planning period of 2025 and 2026”

• Law of the city of Moscow of November 3, 2004 N 70 "On measures of social support for certain categories of residents of the city of Moscow" 

• On the possibility of obtaining medical care within the framework of the program of state guarantees of free provision of medical care to citizens and territorial programs of state guarantees of free provision of medical care to citizens

On the procedure for the volume and conditions for the provision of medical care under the program of state guarantees of free provision of medical care to citizens and territorial programs of state guarantees of free provision of medical care to citizens:

• The list of services within the framework of the program of state guarantees of free provision of medical care to citizens and territorial programs of state guarantees of free provision of medical care to citizens

• Conditions and terms for medical examination of the population for certain categories of citizens, preventive medical examinations

• Tariffs for payment for medical care provided on an outpatient basis within the framework of the Territorial Compulsory Medical Insurance Program, used, among other things, for horizontal payments (with the exception of the "dentistry" profile)

• Memo for citizens on the guarantees of free medical care