Economic Results of Health Insurance Companies
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This publication includes selected indicators from the processing of the quarterly statistical questionnaire Zdp 3-04 filled in by incorporated businesses whose principal activity is the activity of health insurance companies (CZ-NACE group 75.3).
The activity of the health insurance companies in the CR is regulated by applicable laws on the Všeobecná zdravotní pojišťovna ČR (VZP ČR; General Health Insurance Company of the CR) and on employees’ (branch) health insurance companies. In accordance with these laws, the health insurance companies are providers of public health insurance for health insurance policyholders they register.
This statistical publication contains preliminary results for the fourth quarter of 2006 and the whole of 2006 and comparable data for the corresponding period of 2005. Attached are also brief analytical comments to describe development tendencies of key indicators on health insurance companies in the fourth quarter of 2006 and the whole of 2006, in comparison with the corresponding period of 2005, and methodological notes on the indicators in the tables. The reader’s attention is drawn to the fact that the publication releases and uses for comparison data for 2005 adjusted on the basis of additional refinement (corrections) made by the health insurance companies.
When interpreting and using the indicators presented in this publication, one should realize that due to the deadline for the submitting and processing of the statistical questionnaire Zdp 3-04 (by the 27th calendar day following the end of the reference quarter), which comes earlier than the closing date of the accounts of the reporting units, the units are allowed by the methodological notes in the questionnaire to use informed guesses for reporting those statistical indicators which are defined with regard to accounting indicators or derived from them. The guesses are then updated by means of a retro-correction system: the reporting units can submit, along with the questionnaire for a current quarter, corrections (refinements) of the estimated data for all the previous quarters of a current year.
Compared to 2005, the statistical questionnaire Zdp 3-04 for 2006 was not changed, except for minor modifications of methodological notes.