Benes, the National Institute for Drugs Control (SUKL) director, said the number of the used medicines people receive on doctor's prescription dropped from 94 million to 83 million, a financial decline worth almost one billion crowns. Simultaneously, the use of freely available medicine increased from 33.4 million packagings to 34.4 million, Benes said. The figures indicate that health insurers started to spend more money on cost-intensive medical treatment such as oncological, he said. According to the SUKL's statistics, the number of new US manufacturing contracts again ...
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Among others, it binds patients to pay regulatory fees for a visit to a doctor, for an item on prescription, for a day spent in hospital and for the use of emergency medical service. ($1=16.166 Czech crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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