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CVZ and the Dutch health care system

The Health Care Insurance Board (CVZ) co-ordinates the implementation and funding of the Cure Insurance Act (Zvw) and the Exceptional Medical Expenses Act (AWBZ). The CVZ adopts an independent position: in between policy and practice, in between central government on the one hand and the health insurers, care-providers and citizens on the other.
The tasks of the CVZ are laid down in statutes. The most well-known of these are:

Providing advice on the sum of the contributions and the budgets for health insurers;
Managing contribution funds and distributing them over the health insurers;
Providing guidelines for carrying out new and existing legislation;
Monitoring adherence to the regulations of international conventions;
Keeping care-insurers, care providers and citizens informed;
Monitoring feasibility and efficiency of government plans;
Detecting and reporting bottlenecks in the practice of implementation.