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Building up tools: Examples of contracting tools
Technical Paper No. 8.1
Summary (French)
Any health micro-insurance scheme should develop some partnership arrangement with a health provider. Although the extent of this partnership may vary from one scheme to another, the terms and conditions for the provision of agreed services should be clearly stipulated in a formal agreement. Although the choices may be more restricted in the case of health insurance schemes operating in rural areas, contracting types and levels should be thoroughly considered and before implementing the insurance activities. This document provides with several types of contracting arrangements, as well as different concrete examples from health providers in India.
Note
From Answering the health insurance needs of the poor: building up tools for awareness, education and participation, Session 8, Workshop report, New Delhi, May 29-31, 2006, pp.97-119.