The Czech Constitutional Court annulled the extra standards, hospitals are not allowed to offer it any more

On 2.7.2013, the Constitutional Court decided that the division of the health care into the standard health care and extra standard health care was cancelled as of the day of publication of the Constitutional Court´s finding in the Collection of Laws, i.e. on 05.08.2013. From that day, the so-called extra standards in health care end. Patients cannot pay the difference between the care covered by the health insurance company (the so called standard care) and the price of the extra standards.

This cancellation does not affect the possibility to pay for the extra standard in the whole amount, but only in such facilities that have not concluded a contract with the health insurance company. Basically, the Constitutional Court did not criticise the division of the health care into the standard health care and the extra standard health care but was not satisfied with the extra standard health care being regulated by ordinance, not by the legal act. It cannot be excluded that the existing extra standards will be enacted again, nevertheless only under the condition that there will be a political will to do so.