Maccabi Health Care Services
| Native name | מכבי שירותי בריאות |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1941 |
| Members | 7700 |
| Key people | Ran Sahar, Chief executive officer |
| Office location | Hamered 27, Tel Aviv |
| Website | Maccabi Health Services |
Maccabi Health Services (Hebrew: מכבי שירותי בריאות, formerly Maccabi Fund for the Ill, Hebrew: קופת חולים מכבי) is one of the four Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) currently active in Israel. It was founded in September 1940 and began operating in August 1941. Since 1995 Maccabi has been operating under the National Health Insurance Law. Membership fees for HMOs in Israel are legally determined and are collected from those entitled to membership by the Institute for National Insurance.
Maccabi’s services are based upon the Israeli National Health Services Basket and the Maccabi Services Basket. Maccabi members can benefit from additional paid coverage through the Additional Health Services. Maccabi has three levels of Additional Health Services on offer: Maccabi Silver, Maccabi Gold, and Maccabi Sheli.
Maccabi Healthcare Services currently has over 2 million members and is considered an influential institution in regards to the Israeli healthcare system. Maccabi members benefit from diverse health services, using expert personnel in all medical and paramedical fields as well as a network of specialized institutes ho perform diagnostics and treatments, including Assuta. Maccabi’s service methodology is based on free choice of physician.
The Maccabi Committee, which is the chief governing body responsible for the management of Maccabi, holds is elected every 4 years from amongst all Maccabi members, who may all vote
Maccabi Fund for the Ill was founded in 1940 as an association within the Maccabi Israel movement. Maccabi Israel was in essence an a-political movement with a free worldview, in contrast to the collaborative ethos of the Labor movement. Maccabi used the movement’s logo and its regulations stated that it was meant only for members of the Maccabi Israel movement. Maccabi Israel served as the HMO’s framework and even financed printing the first membership books, which cost 5 Palestinian Pounds (circa 150 NIS).
As years passed and the HMO grew, its relationship with Maccabi Israel was loosened. The words “supervised by the Maccabi center” were dropped from the regulations in the year 1954. In the 1969 version of the regulations it was explicitly stated that “The HMO is affiliated with the Maccabi Israel labor union but runs its organizational, financial and medical affairs independently through its own institutions … the HMO is independent in every way”.
When Maccabi was founded in 1940 it incorporated ten doctors and several dozens of members. Amongst the HMO’s founding fathers were: Dr. Felix Theilhaber, Dr. Ernest Freudenthal, Peretz Bernstein, Uri Nadav, Dr. Avigdor Koren, George Flash, Dr. Eliahu Sedgar, Hananya Berger, Dr. Moshe Harnik, Dr. Eliezer Ludwig Lehrfreund, Dr. Robert Atlas, Arthur Rosenberg, Fritz Levinzon, Dr. Herman Lelewer. Most of them were doctors, while others dealt with administration and finances.
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