POBUDA:
 
When a patient is referred for treatment to a hospital outside his/her home country, he/she is entitled to reimbursement. This is what the law says - the bureaucratic republics of Slovenia
But how and when?
Is the billing done monthly and is the patient entitled to compensation only for sickness and accidents at work?
But NOT for a car accident or injury?
The law says : 3% of the costs up to the minimum wage is covered by the insured person himself (approx. 22€) the rest is reimbursed.
The problem is why I propose to abolish reimbursement:
1.the personal doctor does not warn the patient that he is entitled to reimbursement2.only when you have a referral for reimbursement you have to go to the hospital to confirm it-even to the doctor who issued the report.(in some cases the administration is not allowed to sign-even though everything is kept in the computer and the report)3.additional burden on the doctors and the administration.4.I have even experienced that in the administration they did not know or told me that it was not worth it to claim the expenses.5.when a patient goes to the hospital for a check-up on the 1st of the month, he does not know how many times he will go that month, so he can only request a reimbursement order from the doctor the following month and then he has to go to the hospital again to get the visits confirmed.6.none of the people involved in this bureaucracy do anything to fix or abolish it, so I am in favour of making the reimbursement of expenses UKINE!The whole thing could be simple:
The GP's nurse could issue a referral for reimbursement at the patient's request, and copy in from the original report kept in the patient's personal file when and where he/she was examined or hospitalised. This would be to hold the patient accountable for the truth of the information.
With this paper, the patient could claim the right to reimbursement.But it is not that simple in SLO.