Communiqué on Amending the Social Security Institution Health Implementation Communiqué
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This regulation updates the out-of-pocket co-payment (katılım payı) amounts that Turkish citizens must pay when receiving physician and dentist examinations in various healthcare facilities. Primary care (first-tier) services remain free of charge. All second and third-tier public, university, and training-research hospitals now have a uniform co-payment of 26 TL. Private hospitals and clinics at second and third levels are set at 60 TL. Co-payments for examinations referred by family physicians are reduced by 50%. The regulation also revises prescription medication co-payments: 3.76 TL for up to 3 boxes, plus 1.25 TL for each additional box. Injectable forms, serums, nutritional products, and magistral preparations count as one box regardless of quantity.
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Key Changes
- Primary care physician and dentist visits remain free of charge
- Co-payment for all second and third-tier public, training-research and university hospitals standardized at 26 TL
- Co-payment for second and third-tier private health providers set at 60 TL
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Obligations
What this law requires
Do not collect co-payment (katılım payı) from patients receiving physician and dentist examinations at primary care (first-tier) health service providers
Collect a uniform co-payment of 26 TL for physician and dentist examinations at second-tier public health service providers
Collect a uniform co-payment of 26 TL for physician and dentist examinations at Ministry of Health education and research hospitals and their affiliated clinics
Collect a uniform co-payment of 26 TL for physician and dentist examinations at third-tier public hospitals designated by the Ministry of Health
Collect a uniform co-payment of 26 TL for physician and dentist examinations at university hospitals (public or foundation) with dentistry faculties