ACM’s response to planned distribution of COVID-19-related costs among health insurers in 2021

Health insurers in 2021 may still distribute the exceptional additional costs related to the COVID-19 pandemic among each other. This has been the answer of the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) in response to questions posed by ZN (Zorgverzekeraars Nederland, an umbrella organization of ten health insurers in the Netherlands). Without any collective distribution scheme, there is a risk that the continuity of health care may be jeopardized.

In this letter, ACM explains that it has decided not to take any enforcement action this year, because these arrangements were necessary from the viewpoint of safeguarding the continuity of health care. In addition, the arrangements were much less extensive than those in 2020.

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