Profits/Loses of Health Insurance Companies
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The number of active units operating in the area of health insurance was the same in the first quarter of 2003 as in the corresponding quarter of 2002 - there were a total of nine health insurance companies operating in the CR.
Accrual-based insurance premiums (excluding insurance premiums paid by the state, including contractual insurance premiums) are a key part of the yields of health insurance companies. In the first quarter of 2003 they stood at 25.9 billion CZK and were 3.2 % up on the corresponding period of 2002. However, these accrual-based insurance premiums measured do not show actual revenues, which are lower by the premiums unpaid. The actual revenues of the health insurance companies (i.e., collected premiums including premiums paid by the state for the insured for whom the state is the insurance premium payer) totalled 37.2 billion CZK in the first quarter of 2003, which translates into an increase of 13.9 % on 32.6 billion CZK in the corresponding period of 2002 (source: the Ministry of Health of the CR, from the results of the first to third redistribution of premiums to general health insurance in the years 2003 and 2002). Incomes of health insurance companies for this period cannot be compared due to the 1st quarter 2003 change in the frequency of the payment for insured persons made by the state. The change involved returnable financial assistance amounting to CZK 2.7 billion, the so-called advanced payment, from the state budget (in accordance with Act No. 592/1992 Coll., Article 12(2)). The amount will be paid back in the fourth quarter of 2003. Without this amount, the income from premium collection, including payments by the state, would have risen by 5.6 % year-on-year.
In the first quarter of 2003, costs of health care (including contractual health insurance) accounted for 95.7 % of the total costs of health insurance companies. They rose by 7.2 % year-on-year.
In the first quarter of 2003, there were a total of 7 035 (f/t equivalent) persons employed in the health insurance companies -– a rise of 1.6 % year-on-year (6 924 persons). The average monthly wage (calculated from wages excl. other personnel expenses and from the above numbers of employed persons) was 16 663 CZK, growing by 3.8 % year-on-year.
In the first quarter of 2003, the health insurance companies acquired intangible and tangible (incl. land) fixed assets worth 138 million CZK and 408.1 million CZK, respectively.
The balance sum (the sum of assets or liabilities) of the health insurance companies amounted to 45.2 billion CZK at the end of the first quarter of 2003, decreasing by 1.1 billion CZK year-on-year. The acquisition value of intangible and tangible fixed assets (depreciated) – net in the assets of the health insurance companies decreased by 69 million CZK.