Effects of the EU Directive on Patient’s Rights in the sphere of patients etitlements, providers liabilities and services organization, coordination and financing Cover Image

Skutki dyrektywy o stosowaniu praw pacjenta w opiece transgranicznej w zakresie uprawnień pacjentów, zobowiązań świadczeniodawców oraz w sferze organizacji, koordynacji i finansowania świadczeń
Effects of the EU Directive on Patient’s Rights in the sphere of patients etitlements, providers liabilities and services organization, coordination and financing

Author(s): Anna Mokrzycka, Katarzyna Badora-Musiał, Iwona Kowalska, Maciej Rogala
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: implementacja dyrektywy UE; leczenie za granicą; ochrona krajowych systemów; opieka transgraniczna; planowane świadczenia zdrowotne; prawa pacjenta

Summary/Abstract: The so called cross border care directive of European Union follows the long process of European Court of Justice judgments concerning regulation of patient’s right in respect to health services delivered outside the country of health insurance, specifically the planned procedures or treatment not available in the country of patient origin. At this moment the directive is still being transformed into domestic systems however, there are still important obstacles and problems caused by the implementation process. The paper concerns some specific aspects of the above mentioned implementation results, showing also the wider context of the previous attempts focused on the matter solving in EU, mostly describing the legal background and crucial political approaches. It briefly describes such questions like: pre-authorization requirements, subjective obstacles regarding implementation, national contact points problems, need for the legislation novelisation, base reimbursement problems, national systems protection, providers responsibility and some coordination of services aspects in relation to the described directive.

  • Issue Year: 12/2014
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 284-296
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish