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43.950.716,00.<br />

At this stage, if you analyse each item of the total expense, you see how the scenario<br />

changes according to the bill type.<br />

If you consider only the costs connected with health care supplied during a temporary<br />

visit (table 2), it is apparent that almost always the balance is positive. This is a sign of<br />

widely provided health care to EU citizens, temporarily present on our territory, by the<br />

sanitary structures that have stipulated conventions with our NHS. It is due to say that<br />

health care provided in the above case is limited to emergency treatment required by<br />

Table 2 – Bills from E111/EHIC form<br />

patient’s condition.<br />

If, instead, you analyse the balance of health care provided for highly-specialized treatment<br />

(table 3), that is health care obtained by Italian transfer patients to another EU<br />

country or by European patients in Italy, you observe that credits are almost totally<br />

absent, which is a sign of the lowest interest for Italian sanitary structures (Hospitals, specialized<br />

centres, institutes, etc. …), by European citizens.<br />

At the same time the heavy debts show that patients on our NHS increasingly look for<br />

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CEIS Health Report 2006<br />

Year Num. of Bills Amount of bills in € Num. of Bills Amount of bills in € Balance in €<br />

2000 69.263 28.900.203,74 70.531 26.858.745,87 2.041.457,87<br />

2001 69.222 29.593.694,94 67.293 26.852.678,49 2.741.016,45<br />

2002 63.582 29.611.951,48 58.568 26.388.006,82 3.223.944,66<br />

2003 51.805 27.733.857,71 57.398 28.381.712,24 - 647.854,53<br />

2004 26.672 17.290.460,55 25.874 15.947.442,79 1.343.017,76<br />

2005 1.407 1.525.439,56 1.136 1.267.506,92 257.932,64<br />

2000-2005 281.951 134.655.607,98 280.800 125.696.093,13 8.959.514,85<br />

Source: Ministry of Health<br />

Table 3 – Bills from E112 form<br />

Credit Bills Debt Bills<br />

Year Num. of Bills Amount of bills in € Num. of Bills Amount of bills in € Balance in €<br />

2000 998 1.003.366,31 15.798 51.711.192,21 - 50.707.825,90<br />

2001 916 1.181.590,69 13.448 48.413.774,53 - 47.232.183,84<br />

2002 774 1.168.157,18 12.580 41.978.783,65 - 40.810.626,47<br />

2003 193 525.671,94 11.488 37.557.448,21 - 37.031.776,27<br />

2004 100 205.769,31 22.936 20.593.435,02 - 20.387.665,71<br />

2005 3 13.934,71 7.266 3.092.622,14 - 3.078.687,43<br />

2000-2005 2.984 4.098.490,14 83.516 203.347.255,76 -199.248.765,62<br />

Source: Ministry of Health<br />

Credit Bills Debt Bills

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