Are you waiting for a referral to the sanatorium? Now you’ll get them faster

Currently, the path of trip to the sanatorium financed from the National Health Fund includes two referrals. The first should be obtained from a GP, family or specialist. The only requirement is to sign a contract with the Provincial Branch of the National Health Fund. Then they should be transferred to the National Health Fund. There The legitimacy of referral to the sanatorium is decided by a balneologist or spa treatment specialist and physical therapy.. This is the bottleneck of the whole process.

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The Ministry of Health claims that the problem is above all the lack of doctors. In the amendment to the regulation prepared by the Ministry of Health, this is exactly defined as “A deficiency of the medical staff assessing referrals, meeting the requirements set out in the applicable regulation, especially in such a narrow field as balneology and physical medicine or rehabilitation”. Therefore, the designed changes are to expand this catalog to include internal medicine specialists, family medicine, rheumatology and orthopedics who have completed a course from the basics of balneology.

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According to the law, the National Health Fund, or rather the doctor’s examination, has 30 days. In two cases, it can extend this period by 14 days. These include supplementing medical records by a driver or ordering additional tests. However, NFZ data show a completely different reality. It turns out that in 25 percent cases of the above dates are exceeded. What’s more, in four provincial branches of the National Health Fund, the percentage of exceedances is … 70 percent.

Will the changes planned by the Ministry of Health improve the situation? As announced They are to come into force in June this year. Since then, seniors can count on the fact that their referral to the sanatorium will be considered in a timely manner.