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19. Act LXXXIV of 2003 on the Various Aspects of Practicing Medicine
(promulgated: 11/11/2003)
● regulates the various employment options for health workers
20. Resolution No. 1115/2003. (XI. 26.) Korm. of the Government on the Scope of Duties and
Authority of the Governmental Commissioner Responsible for the Implementation and
Coordination of Health Sector Reform
21. Decree No. 68/2003. (XII. 13.) ESzCsM of the Minister of Health, Social and Family
Affairs on the Corrective Coefficient to be Applied for the Reimbursement of Social
Insurance Subsidies of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use and of Nutritional Products
for October 2003
● determines that pharmaceutical companies have to pay subsidies for any quantity of
drugs that exceeds the volume agreed on with the National Health Insurance Fund
Administration
22. Act LX of 2003 on Insurance Companies and Insurance (promulgated: 15/12/2003)
23. Ruling No. 63/2003. (XII. 15.) AB of the Constitutional Court
● finds Act XLIII of 2003 unconstitutional for procedural reasons
24. Act CXVI of 2003 on the 2004 Budget of the Republic of Hungary and on the Three-year
Principles of the State Budget (promulgated: 22/12/2003)
● expands the Care Coordination Pilot up to 2 million inhabitants (Article 77)
25. Government Decree No. 264/2003. (XII. 24.) Korm. on the Amendment of Government
Decree No. 43/1999. (III. 3.) Korm. on Certain Aspects of the Social Insurance Financing
of Health Services
2004
● introduces payment limits in specialist care for performance above the 2003 level
(Article 12 modifies Article 27).
1. Decree No. 1/2004 (I. 5.) ESzCsM of the Minister of Health, Social and Family Affairs on
the Regulation of the Operation of Patients’, Socially Indigents’ and Children’s Right
Representatives
● defines the tasks of the Public Foundation of Patient, Child and Social care rights
representative (Article 2), conditions for employment and obligation of representatives
(Articles 1,3,4,5,7)
2. Governmental Decree No. 112/2004. (IV.12.) Korm. On the Amendment of Governmental
Decree No. 43/1999. (III. 3.) Korm.
● incorporates hospice home care as a separate payment category
3. Government Resolution No. 1035/2004. (IV. 19.) Korm. on the Reorganization of the
Foundation for the Homeless into Public Foundation for the Homeless and on the
abolishment of certain foundations without legal successor
4. Decree No. 32/2004 (IV. 26.) ESzCsM of the Minister of Health, Social and Family
Affairs on the Criteria of the Inclusion of Registered Medicines and Special Nutritional
Formulae into Social Health Insurance Financing and on the Modification of the
Inclusion Decision or the Extent of the Subsidy
● sets new inclusion and exclusion rules according to the Transparency Directive
(Article 24, section (3))