Hospitals will have to economize on pharmaceuticals

Hospitals should prescribe patients less pharmaceuticals, medical devices and laboratory tests. Otherwise they will not get money for higher salaries of doctors and nurses from Všeobecná zdravotná poisťovňa (General Health Insurance Company). If they reduce their monthly costs by approximately € 4 million, insurance company will from February give them around € 2 million monthly more. According to head of insurance company the reduction of the consumption of pharmaceuticals will not affect the patients and he also claims that hospitals are currently buying and using the pharmaceuticals very ineffectively.