Anyone who is sick in Austria must do one thing above all: wait. First for a doctor’s appointment, then for billing the health insurer. In the future this should be faster and automatic, but the medical association advises its members to simply ignore the law. According to the ministry, patients could defend themselves against ‘unwilling’ elective doctors – the ‘Krone’ shows how.
Anyone who goes to the doctor from July 1 can insist that the doctor submits the invoice online to the relevant health insurer. This should ensure that patients get their money back faster. A relief for everyone who, due to the enormously overloaded health insurance system, has to resort to elective doctors, largely at their own expense – and all this with relatively little bureaucratic effort for the doctors. But a month before the deadline – which was already set last year – the medical association is taking action against the new patient law.
Source: Krone
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