CROSS-BORDER HEALTHCARE AND EUROPEAN UNION LAW
Ferrara, 13th March 2017 Fabiana Panin, PhD - University of Ferrara fabiana.panin@unife.it
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CROSS-BORDER HEALTHCARE AND EUROPEAN UNION LAW Ferrara, 13 th March 2017 Fabiana Panin, PhD - University of Ferrara fabiana.panin@unife.it Healthcare systems public Provider private public Financing private Beveridge Access Bismarck
Ferrara, 13th March 2017 Fabiana Panin, PhD - University of Ferrara fabiana.panin@unife.it
Healthcare systems
public Provider private public Financing private Beveridge Access Bismarck
EU policy perspective on access to healthcare
The possibility for a person insured in a Member State to be treated in another Member State and to be reimbursed.
Cross-border healthcare
The possibility for a person insured in a Member State to be treated in another Member State and to be reimbursed.
Cross-border healthcare
Cross-border healthcare
April 2004 on the coordination of social security systems
Cross-border healthcare
Council Regulation No. 1408/71 Regulation No 883/2004
Member State where he works
who needs to receive necessary or urgent medical benefits
Member State to receive a treatment at his States’ expenses
Cross-border healthcare
Cross-border healthcare
“Services shall be considered to be ‘services’ within the meaning of the Treaties where they are normally provided for remuneration, in so far as they are not governed by the provisions relating to freedom of movement for goods, capital and persons”.
Cross-border healthcare
2003: Müller-Fauré (C-385/99) 2003: Inizan (C-56/01) 2006: Watts (C-372/04) 2007: Stamatelaki (C-444/05)
Cross-border healthcare
Court case law + Regulation on coordination of social security systems Legal Uncertainty
Cross-border healthcare
Cross-border healthcare
25.10.2013: deadline for implementation Evaluative study on the cross-border healthcare Directive (March 2015) Commission report on the operation of Directive 2011/24/EU on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare (September 2015) Member state data on cross-border healthcare following Directive 2011/24/EU (October 2016) Report of the Conference “Towards amplified awareness of EU rights to cross-border care” (October 2016)
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