OBJECTIVES: In Hungary, home-based parenteral nutrition has been financed by the social insurance system since January 2013. Our objective was to analyse the system of financing home-based parenteral nutrition. METHODS: Data used in our analysis were taken from the financing database of the National Health Insurance Fund Administration. Period analysed included years between 2013-2015. Patients receiving home-based parenteral nutrition were assigned a code ’OENO 88744’ of International Classification of Procedures in Medicine. RESULTS: According to the database of the National Health Insurance Fund Administration, reimbursement was given to 53 patients since January 2013, on the basis of home-based parenteral nutrition. Thirteen patients were under 18, the oldest was 73 years old. Twenty-one organisational units from 14 institutions reported cases of home-based parenteral nutrition. Szent György Hospital of Fejér County, Szent Imre Hospital from Budapest and Semmelweis University reported 76% of the patients and 78% of the days on parenteral nutrition. Twenty-two of the patients on home-based parenteral nutrition received a Hickman catheter and 18 were inserted a central venous line. Mean reimbursed nutrition units per patient were 25/month. Out of 9736 nutrition units, 6 patients were reported to receive more than two units daily ( 490 nutrition units in total). Thirty-two of the patients on home-based parenteral nutrition were reported to have had resection of the small intestine, 11 required an ileo- or jejunostoma, and 12 had undergone small intestine surgery. The most common main diagnosis was bowel insufficiency caused by Type 1 short bowel syndrome in 46% of the cases. CONCLUSIONS: As the data suggest, current patient numbers in Hungary are significantly lower from what had been procrastinated to be around 100-150 according to population size by international statistics. After the possibilities of reimbursement were created, the patients received planned parenteral nutrition.