Categories of the insured exempt from payment of all regulation fees
- Insured persons placed in children’s homes, institutional education establishment or protective education. Insured persons placed for institutional education in homes for the handicapped and insured persons placed by court order in homes for children requiring immediate assistance or insured persons placed by court order in foster care under the Family Act.
- Insured persons producing a decision or certificate issued by an authority for assistance in material need.
- Citizens placed by court order in protective care – exemption from regulation fees only applies to health care, including medicaments, provided in protective care.
- If an insured person is placed in institutional care for reasons set out in a special law without their consent but with court consent to their being kept there. An example is an unconscious insured person taken to hospital.
- Citizens who must submit to special measures to protect public health, such as:
- treatment of an infectious disease that an insured person must submit to,
- compulsory isolation in a health care facility,
- compulsory quarantine measures to protect public health.
- Insured persons who are provided under another regulation live-in social services in homes for the handicapped, homes for seniors, homes with a special regimen or institutional care facilities, provided the balance of at least 15% of the insured person’s income, after payment for accommodation and food, is less than CZK 800.
Every insured person exempt from payment of regulation fees must supply proof of this to the health care facility, including the pharmacy.