The Health Budget Board is established by the Minister of Health of the Slovak Republic as its advisory body pursuant to § 5 (4) of Act No.575/2001 Coll. on the organisation of the activities of the Government and the organisation of the Central Government as amended and pursuant to § 15 (8) of Act No. 581/2004 Coll. on Health Insurance Companies, Health Care Supervision and on the amendment of certain laws as amended by the "Programme Decree."
The purpose of the Council is to monitor the fulfilment of expenditure limits over time, identify risks and deviations from those spending limits, more realistically estimate the basis of health expenditure for the next period, transparently and professionally forecast the expected reality of the current year and propose a public health insurance budget, propose a budget for public health establishments and propose a Programme Order transparently through more efficient data exchange and a higher degree of professionalism that are consistent with each other and provide a scenario without changes to the policies of the above areas, including specific proposals for possible austerity measures and a scenario with policy changes.
The status, scope, tasks, composition and method of negotiation shall be governed by the Statute of the Council.