Amendment to the Social Security Institution Health Implementation Communiqué
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This amendment changes patient contribution rules for doctor and dentist visits under Turkey’s Social Security Institution health reimbursement system. Patients will not pay a contribution fee for physician or dentist examinations at primary care providers. For examinations at other healthcare providers, the applicable contribution fee rules continue to apply, but patients referred by contracted, assigned, or authorized family physicians will pay 50% less. The amendment also raises a referenced amount in the same section from 5 Turkish lira to 30 Turkish lira.
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Key Changes
- Removes contribution fees for doctor and dentist examinations at primary care providers
- Applies a 50% reduction in contribution fees for patients referred by authorized family physicians to other healthcare providers
- Raises a referenced amount in the same contribution-fee section from 5 Turkish lira to 30 Turkish lira
Obligations
What this law requires
Do not collect patient contribution fees for physician or dentist examinations performed at primary care healthcare service providers.
For physician or dentist examinations at healthcare providers other than primary care providers, collect the applicable patient contribution fees under the existing rules.
Reduce the patient contribution fee by 50% for physician or dentist examinations at healthcare service providers when the patient is referred by a family physician contracted, assigned, or authorized by the Ministry of Health.
Apply the amended monetary reference amount of 30 Turkish lira instead of 5 Turkish lira in paragraph six of Article 1.8.1 of the Social Security Institution Health Implementation Communiqué.