The Verkhovna Rada will liquidate medical and social expert commissions from next year, People’s Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak (the “Voice” faction) reported.
“The Verkhovna Rada adopted a general decision to liquidate MSEK from 2025,” Zheleznyak wrote in a telegram.
According to him, Law No. 12178 was supported by a total of 259 people’s deputies at the plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada on Thursday.
As explained the Ministry of Healthaccording to the law, from January 1, 2025, it will be the expert teams of medical practitioners who will establish disability instead of the outdated and corrupt MSEK.
Expert teams will conduct evaluations in an electronic system that takes into account the real needs of the person.
The teams will be formed automatically based on the principle of randomness, and the data of doctors and patients will remain hidden until the moment of evaluation.
According to the document, the decisions of the expert teams can be appealed to the Center for the Assessment of Functional Status, which will include doctors from public health care institutions from all over the country.
In addition, the Ministry of Health notes, the law lays the foundation for the use of the International Classification of Functioning (ICF) in educational, social and other spheres.
At the same time, it is emphasized that all certificates and documents issued by MSEK before January 1, 2025, remain valid. In the future, they will be the basis for receiving social guarantees, rights, benefits, pensions, compensations and other payments during the period of validity of the documents.
In addition, the Ministry of Health clarifies that the MSEC is obliged to ensure the transfer to certain health care institutions of all medical expert cases and archival documents available to them.
Cases that have not been examined by the MSEC by the end of 2025 will be examined by expert teams, while the person must be informed of the date and new address where the assessment will be conducted.
For persons whose re-examination period falls on January-June 2025 and who were unable to pass it on time, the term of disability is extended until the date of decision-making based on the results of the assessment of daily functioning, but no later than July 1, 2025.
For people who have been diagnosed with a disability for life, there is no need to undergo an assessment, because all rights, documents, payments, benefits, social services and deferments remain valid. Re-evaluation is possible only at the request of a person or by a court decision.
The Ministry of Health informs that the statistical data of the assessment of daily functioning will be made public for public monitoring and prevention of corruption.
