건강생활실천 지원금제The National Health Insurance Corporation announced on the 13th that it would promote the midterm evaluation of the health living practice subsidy pilot project and the development of an improvement model.
The health living practice subsidy system is a pilot project that has been in progress since July last year in 24 regions across the country. It was introduced to support individual self-management practices through the National Obesity Management Comprehensive Measures and the 5th National Health Promotion Comprehensive Plan.
It is a method of providing incentives of up to KRW 50,000 to 60,000 per person per year to health insurance subscribers with health risk factors or those participating in the chronic disease management pilot project, depending on their efforts to practice healthy life and the results of improvement.
At the time of the implementation announcement, the Federation of Health and Medical Organizations and others criticized that “supporting healthy living practices seems like a good system at first glance, but in the end, it is shifting responsibility for health care to individuals.”
The government also plans to go through an interim inspection of the pilot project by this year and next year, and to register the official project model in earnest from 2024.
This year marks the first year of the pilot project, and the operational status and performance are evaluated. Analyze the characteristics of participants in the pilot project, such as by income quintile, region, detailed model, and other characteristics of participants, and investigate the current status of incentive accumulation and use.
In addition, it plans to set up a control group necessary to derive the net effect of incentives in the future along with the establishment of an evaluation index for the effectiveness of the pilot project.
In addition, it seeks an efficient operation plan through integration with similar projects being implemented by the Corporation, such as the elderly health mileage project and smart checkup follow-up management.
Based on this, the plan is to upgrade the operating model, review the legal basis required in case of conversion to the main project, and establish scientific basis data for the promotion of the pilot project.
