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Health insurance companies must compulsorily watch this. The patients do not have to watch this themselves. As soon as the health insurance companies learn that patients crossed the yearly limit, they must send them a letter informing them about the forthcoming return of the money. The money is sent either by mail or directly to the patient's account. HN highlights the case of a pensioner, who received over 11,500 crowns from VZP, the biggest health insurance company, a few days ago. "We really did not know that someone may pay over 16,000 crowns over the first three months of the year," Foreign Ministry spokesman Tomas Cikrt is quoted by the paper as having said. "It is interesting to watch how much money the patients were willing to invest in drugs when there was no 5,000-crown limit. No one had known about such patients," Cikrt said. Health Minister Tomas Julinek (the Civic Democratic Party, ODS) often argues with the plight of the seriously ill when advocating the health reform that introduced the fees. The 5,000 limit has been crossed by about 200 people. Health insurance companies have returned to them half a million crowns, on average 2500 crowns per patient, last week, HN writes. The hundreds of cases have revealed that the yearly limit really protects some narrow groups of the seriously ill, HN adds. ($1 = 15.622 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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