For a clinic, pharmacy or polyclinic, the contract with a health insurer is what keeps the doors open. Under Slovak law, payments from health insurers are public funds, so an insurer must not contract with a provider that is not entered in the Register of Public Sector Partners. This covers a general practitioner and a hospital network alike, a dental practice as much as a home nursing agency.

For a new practice we handle registration alongside the other steps, such as the licence from the regional authority and registration with the National Health Information Centre (NCZI), so that insurer contracts are not held up. For clinic networks owned through a holding, we trace the beneficial owner to the top, even where a foreign investment fund stands behind it. After registration we keep watch on the annual verification.

What we help with

We register both self-employed doctors and practices run as an s.r.o.
We align registration with the healthcare provider licence.
When a practice moves from sole trader to s.r.o., we prepare a new entry.
For clinic and hospital networks we review the parent companies.
We keep track of the annual verification deadline.

This page is for general information, reflects Slovak law at the time of writing and is not a substitute for advice on your particular matter.

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