Abstract: The object of the study is the compulsory medical insurance system in the Russian Federation. The subject is the reduction of idle money in the compulsory medical insurance system. The authors conducted a financial justification for assessing the scale of one of the idle turnovers associated with the counter movement of funds in the compulsory medical insurance system: when paying insurance premiums for compulsory medical insurance of persons employed in medical organizations and forming tariffs for the provision of medical services (the cost of which includes wages with accruals for payments for wages, the share of which in some cases exceeds 90%). Particular attention is paid to assessing the volume of financial support for the implementation of the author's recommendations, which has its own specific nuances in comparison with the financial mechanism for implementing the current practice of preferential tariffs for compulsory medical insurance.
The authors used the following set of research methods: deduction, structural and dynamic analysis, synthesis, comparison, graphical tools. Scientific novelty is associated with insufficient study in domestic and foreign scientific literature of issues related to reducing the number of idle speeds. It was revealed that in 2022, at least 64.89 billion rubles are accounted for by the payment of insurance premiums for compulsory medical insurance of employees of medical organizations (which is more than 2.4 billion rubles higher than in 2021). The implementation of the author's proposals will not require additional interbudgetary transfers from the federal budget. The results obtained will be useful for practical use in the activities of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the Government of Russia, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, as well as medical organizations in the framework of making and implementing decisions on the modernization of the compulsory medical insurance system.