Seniors and children and adolescents will also receive prescriptions for free medicines from doctors accepting them at facilities that do not have a contract with the National Health Fund - the government approved a draft amendment to the Law on Health Services on Tuesday. The important change also applies to pharmacists, who will gain the ability to issue reimbursable prescriptions for recommended vaccines.
The government's decision means that the right to reimbursement (including 100 percent reimbursement) is finally assigned to the patient. At the moment, prescriptions for drugs on the "S" and "OJ" lists, i.e. reimbursed drugs, free of charge for seniors over 65 and under 18, can only be issued by doctors working in the public system, and even that - not all of them (initially, only PCPs could do it, then the authorization was extended to doctors of other specialties, both in...
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