PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF INSURED PERSONS IN THE COMPULSORY HEALTH INSURANCE SYSTEM

The paper presents the basic legislative acts that regulate activities in the compulsory health insurance (CHI) system in the Russian Federation, as well as advances in this field in the Voronezh Region in the past two decades. It also gives the results of the measures implemented in 2013 to protect the rights of those insured by the Regional CHІ Foundation of the Voronezh Region, which suggest that the introduction of the new legislation in the CHІ system has contributed to more intensive activities of providing free good-quality healthcare to the Russian Federation’s citizens living in the Voronezh Region, to higher awareness among the population, and to studies of the insured persons’ satisfaction with the quality of rendered medical services.

compulsory health insurance, protection of the rights of insured persons, medical and economic examination, healthcare quality appraisal, public opinion poll