Rethinking Slovenia’s health technology assessment system
Abstract
The paper offers an overview of the institutional challenges Slovenia faces in aligning with the EU HTA Regulation, and to that end, fragmentation, limited methodological capacity, and the absence of a formally designated HTA body can indeed be seen as areas for further development [1].However, the overall characterization of the Slovenian system as "underdeveloped" risks being overly reductive and insufficiently nuanced.In particular, the manuscript appears to underrecognize a key strength of the Slovenian healthcare system, the well-functioning and highly pragmatic pricing and reimbursement (P&R) framework for medicinal products.This framework has demonstrably enabled rapid and equitable access to
Fields of Study & Subjects
Quality of Life Measurement
World Trade Organization Law
European and International Law Studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1–3
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN