Support for medical care provided by general practitioners

The Law on Modernizing Compulsory Health Insurance (2004) enables service providers, e.g. general practitioners, and health insurance companies, for the first time, to conclude contracts for general practitioner centered health care without obtaining approval from the associations of health insurance physicians. As a result, the preparation and fulfillment of contracts and the provision of the infrastructure required by the contracting parties, e.g. in the course of registrations or termination of the services provided, can be coordinated by service providers other than the associations of health insurance physicians.