Take advantage of this public service will be possible as early as this year. The innovation will be implemented as part of the introduction and development of information technology in the system of compulsory social health insurance. It is planned that the service will be available on the e-government portal for citizens and in public service centers. Each citizen will be able to track payments received for him in the OSMS system.
Also, in 2018, the Social Health Insurance Fund plans to improve the technology that provides the state electronic service for attaching citizens to clinics.
“This work is carried out by the Fund within the framework of instructions of the head of state given in the message to the people of Kazakhstan in 2018, in terms of“ ensuring the availability and effectiveness of medical care through the development of information systems, ”said Nurlybek Kabdykaparov, director of the FSMS branch in Astana .
From January 1, the Fund acts as a single operator for the distribution of public funds aimed at ensuring a guaranteed amount of free medical care for the population. Kazakhstanis and foreigners permanently residing in the Republic of Kazakhstan can use the right of free attachment without restrictions. Previously, it was possible to implement it only once every six months, or as part of an attachment campaign.
The deadlines for the implementation of OSMS in Kazakhstan have been postponed from January 1, 2018 to January 1, 2020 (Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On Amendments and Additions to Some Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Taxation Issues”).
The work of transferring the entire population to compulsory social health insurance is a complicated thing, there is a lot of work. Therefore, more time is needed for preparation, and the Ministry of Health earlier came up with a proposal to postpone the implementation of compulsory medical insurance for 2020.
In addition, a decision was made until 2020 to suspend the transfer of contributions of individuals, employees, self-employed, including individual entrepreneurs (IP), as well as state contributions for preferential categories of citizens to the OSMS Fund. At the same time, the collection of employer contributions will continue.
Thus, until 2020, transfers and contributions to the OSMS Fund will not:
individuals
wage-earners,
self-employed
SP.
Individual entrepreneurs do not pay for themselves as individual entrepreneurs in 2018-2019, but if individual entrepreneurs (including collective farms) have employees, they must make deductions from their salaries as an employer (1.5% in 2018-2019, 2% from 2020).
Only employers continue to pay. Employers until 2020 must make monthly contributions for their employees and for themselves to the Compulsory Social Health Insurance Fund.
Is the health insurance calculated from the employee's salary? No. The deductions are paid at the expense of the employer's own funds, that is, they will not be deducted from the employee’s salary. In turn, the employer, on the basis of the amendments made to Article 100 of the Tax Code, is entitled to deduct deductions for deductions paid to the FSMS. If during the reporting month the employer did not accrue and did not pay income to the employee, then there are no obligations to pay deductions (for example, if the employee is on vacation without maintenance).
One of the reasons for the postponement of the implementation of OSMS is the high probability that the self-employed category will be dropped out of the insurance system (about a million people lost. You need to find them and clarify their data in the information system