4 Amendments of Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA related to 2008/0142(COD)
Amendment 104 #
Council position
Recital 16 a (new)
Recital 16 a (new)
(16a) The transposition of this Directive into national legislation should not result in patients being encouraged to receive treatment outside their Member State of affiliation when this is against their wishes. This would be particularly undesirable if the decision to encourage the patient to seek healthcare in another Member State were to be based on non- medical factors, such as the cost of treatment.
Amendment 143 #
Council position
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point a
a) patients receive upon request relevant information on the standards and guidelines referred to in paragraph 1, including provisions on supervision and assessment of healthcare providers, and information on which healthcare providers are subject to these standards and guidelines;
Amendment 172 #
Council position
Article 7 – paragraph 5
Article 7 – paragraph 5
5. Member States may adopt provisions in accordance with the Treaty aimed at ensuring that patients enjoy the same rights when receiving cross-border healthcare as they would have enjoyed if they had received healthcare in a comparable situation in the Member State of affiliation. This includes treatment by healthcare providers that are in no way part of the public healthcare system of the Member State in which they operate, when the healthcare they provide is not funded by the public healthcare system in the patient’s Member State of affiliation.
Amendment 174 #
Council position
Article 7 – paragraph 6
Article 7 – paragraph 6
6. For the purposes of paragraph 4, Member States shall have a mechanism for calculation of costs of cross-border healthcare that are to be reimbursed to the insured person by the Member State of affiliation. Thise mechanism shall be based on objective, non-discriminatory criteria known in advance. The mechanism shall be and applied at the relevant administrative level in cases where the Member State of affiliation has a decentralised healthcare system(local, regional or national) administrative level.