Contractual limit of medical benefits financed from public funds. Patient’s unjust
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Umowny limit świadczeń zdrowotnych fnansowanych ze środków publicznych a bezpodstawne wzbogacenie pacjenta
Contractual limit of medical benefits financed from public funds. Patient’s unjust enrichment

Author(s): Grzegorz Glanowski
Subject(s): Civil Law, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: contractual limit of medical benefits; unjust enrichment; civil law;

Summary/Abstract: Te paper describes the behavior of a patient who in order to obtain medical benefits simulates symptoms which, according to special medical knowledge could be recognized as a threat to life or health. Te main problem arises when despite the fact that the limits of medical benefits financed from the public funds have run short, a medical doctor,wishing to full his statutory duty, decides to render medical assistance to such patient.Whether that assistance was really indispensable can only be determined after the patient has been thoroughly examined. It may then be too late, though, and the doctor may face serious difficulty in being reimbursed by the National Health Fund, or, if there was no actual threat to patient’s life or health, such compensation for rendered service becomes out of reach. Te author analyses the above mentioned situation from the civil law point of view.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 147-159
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish