Measure
Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic
No 07045-9/2005
amending the measure of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic No 07045/2003 of 30 December 2003 laying down the scope for regulating prices in the field of health, as amended
The Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic pursuant to § 11 and 20 of the Act No. 18/1996 Coll. on Prices, as amended, provides:
Art. I
Measure No 07045/2003 of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic of 30 December 2003 laying down the scope for regulating prices in the field of health (communication No 588/2003 Coll.), as amended by measure No 07045-2/2003-OAP of 25 February 2004 (communication No 130/2004). Z. z.), measures of 20 April 2004 No 07045-3/2004-OAP (communication No 253/2004 Z. z.), measures of 3 August 2004 No 07045-4/2004-OAP (communication No 444/2004 Z. z.), measure No 07045-5/2004-OAP (communication No 487/2004) Z. z.), measure No 07045-6/2004-OAP (Communication No 628/2004 Z. z.), measure No 07045-7/2004-OAP (communication No 744/2004 Z. z.) and measure No 07045-8/2004-OAP (Communication No 89/2005 Z. z.) is amended as follows:
1. In Annex 4, in Part A, entry 1, "Ambullant healthcare', general point (c) (2) "No' is replaced by "Ambullant health care', the word "Ambullant health care' is replaced by "Ambullant health care' and the word "Ambulent health care' is replaced by "Ambulance'.
2. In Annex 4, in Part A, entry 1, "Ambullant healthcare', general point (c) (3) the word "A' is replaced by "A' and the number "A' is replaced by "A'.
3. In Annex 4, Part A, entry 1, "Ambullant healthcare', general point (c) (4) the word "a' is replaced by "a' and "a' is replaced by "a'.
4. In Annex 4, Part A, heading 2 - Outpatient health care specialised, including joint investigation and treatment components, home nursing care and mobile hospices, point (c) in the introductory sentence, the words ""a the price of the point under point (a) other than the price of the point under point (a) shall be deleted. d.
5. In Annex 4, Part A, entry 2 - Outpatient health care specialised, including joint investigation and treatment components, home nursing care and mobile hospices, point (c) (c3), the word "c' is replaced by "c'.
6. In Annex 4, Part A, item 2 - Outpatient healthcare specialised, including joint investigation and treatment components, home care and mobile hospices, the following point (d) is inserted after point (c):
(d) The price of the point referred to in point (a), excluding the price of the point for the performance of the joint investigation and treatment components, shall not include the costs referred to in point 1 (c) of point 1.
Points (d) and (e) to date shall be referred to as points (e) and (f).
7. In Annex 4, Part A, entry 3 – Maximum health care performance prices for specialised outpatient healthcare, point (a) Health care performance deletes point 3.
Point 4 to date is referred to as point 3.
8. In Annex 4, Part A, item 3 - Maximum health care performance prices for specialised outpatient healthcare, point (b) reads as follows:
(b) The maximum performance prices referred to in points 1 to 3 shall include all costs related to the provision of health care.
9. In Annex 4, Part A, entry 3 - Maximum health care performance prices for specialised outpatient health care (c), the number
10. In Annex 4, Part A, entry 7 - Rescue health service, points (g) to (k) are added to read:
(g) The fixed price for urgent medical care provided by a healthcare provider authorised to operate an aviation emergency medical service ambulance in a 24 hour service is 1 700 000 Sk monthly for one ambulance, which is deployed in the respective intervention territory.
(h) The contribution of the health insurance undertaking to the payment of the price referred to in point (g) corresponds to the share of the insured person in the total number of insured persons.
(i) The price of transport shall be added to the performance price referred to in point (g). The maximum price of helicopter or aircraft transport per flight minute is 1000 Sk.
(j) The maximum price of one flight minute for the performance of aviation emergency medical services provided to a foreigner from States with which international agreements on the provision of health care are concluded under which the healthcare provided is reimbursed wholly or partly from the State budget, the performance of aviation emergency medical services provided to an insured person from other Member States of the European Union, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland pursuant to Regulations EEC No 1408/71 and 574/72 and the performance of the aviation emergency services paid from the State budget under a special regulation3) is CZK 2 500.
(k) The price referred to in points (g), (i) and (j) shall include all costs related to the provision of aviation emergency medical services.
11. In Annex 4, Part A, item 8 - Constitutional health care, point (a) in the table "Price of executions provided to one hospitalized patient by the departments of the various types of institutional health care facilities', the words "other' shall be inserted after the words "High-specialised professional institutes', including the Faculty Hospital with a Polyclinic Bratislava Þ the workplace of the Danube Biskupice'.
12. In Annex 4, Part A, entry 8 - Constitutional health care, point (b) in the introductory sentence, a comma and the word "surgery' are inserted after the word "spill'.
13. In Annex 4, Part A, item 8 - Constitutional healthcare, point (c) is deleted.
Points (d) to (g) above are referred to as letters (c) to (f).
14. In Annex 4, Part A, item 8 - Constitutional health care, point (c) (1) the words "including the Faculty Hospital with the Polyclinic Bratislava - the workplace Pezinok' shall be inserted after the word "the hospital'.
15. In Annex 4, Part A, entry 8 - Constitutional health care, point (d), the word "d' is replaced by "d'.
16. In Annex 4, Part A, entry 8 - Constitutional healthcare, point (e), a new point 9 is inserted after point 8, which reads as follows:
As a single therapeutic alternative provided to the patient in exceptional cases, where the proven economically eligible costs of hospitalization of the patient by the provider exceed the maximum cost of hospitalization in the relevant medical field by more than 2,5 times (250 per cent).
Points 9 and 10 are referred to as points 10 and 11.
17. In Annex 4, Part C - The list of performances and their score values shall be replaced by the list of performances and their score values set out in the Annex to this measure.
Art. II
This measure shall enter into force on 1 April 2005.
Rudolf Zajac
Minister for Health of the Slovak Republic
Date of issue: 21.03.2005