New ÖGK chairman McDonald is against an ambulance fee

Vienna – He is “not a fan of the ambulance fee,” said Peter McDonald, the new chairman of the Austrian Health Insurance Fund (ÖGK) on Tuesday in the Orf “Zib2”. This would stipulate that patients who come to a hospital outpatient clinic unnecessarily would have to pay a fee. He would not approve of patients being punished because they would have to go to an outpatient clinic due to a lack of other options, said McDonald about the idea that Tyrol’s Medical Association President Stefan Kastner recently called for from the likely future blue-turquoise federal government for better patient management.