Ambulance fee
The outpatient fee (legal term treatment contribution outpatient clinic ) is a deductible in Austria for the use of a hospital outpatient clinic , which is charged to the insured by the relevant health insurance provider. It was introduced on January 1, 2001 and amounted to 150 schillings with a medical referral, without this 250 schillings , but not more than 1000 schillings per insured person in the calendar year.
The ambulance fee should, according to the Austrian Ministry of Health in the Austrian health system divert from congested, expensive ambulances through to private practice "misguided patient flows". In its steering function, it is similar to the German practice fee .
The outpatient fee was abolished after two decisions of the Constitutional Court on May 1, 2003, among other things because of the effect attributed to it to “deter” socially disadvantaged patients from necessary visits to the doctor. Other problems were the high administrative burden and the many necessary but impractical exceptions.
Up to 60% of the patients in the outpatient departments were there on self-referral in 2017. This is why the reintroduction of the outpatient fee is the subject of recent legal and political discussion.
literature
- Ingrid Rosian, Stephan Mildschuh, Sabine Vogler et al .: deductible. International comparison and implications for Austria. Published by the Austrian Federal Institute for Healthcare , Vienna 2002 on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Social Security and Generations .
Individual evidence
- ↑ § 135a of the General Social Insurance Act (ASVG), Federal Law Gazette No. 189/1955, as amended by the Federal Law, with which the General Social Insurance Act, the Commercial Social Insurance Act, the Farmers Social Insurance Act and the Civil Servants Health and Accident Insurance Act are amended, Federal Law Gazette I No. 35/2001.
- ↑ Ambulance fees endanger the health care Augustin , accessed on July 18, 2020.
- ↑ Decision of March 16, 2001, G 152 / 00-11.
- ↑ Decision of March 13, 2003, G 368-371 / 02 V 81-84 / 02-10.
- ^ PVÖ-Edlinger: vehemently against mind games about the new introduction of an APA-OTS outpatient fee , August 12, 2015.
- ↑ news networld Internet Service GmbH: - medical card fee is 2,004 • NEWS.AT 1 January . In: news.at . April 2, 2003 ( news.at [accessed November 18, 2016]).
- ↑ "Those who come without an assignment have to pay" meinviertel.at , March 2, 2017.
- ^ Marie-Theres Egyed, Günther Oswald: Why turquoise-blue wants less cash registers. According to negotiators, new ambulance fees are also an issue - ÖVP denies that Der Standard , 13 November 2017.