Even with the new proposed measures, there is no announcement for limiting the price of PCR tests

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There are no announcements for limiting the different prices for PCR testing even after the announcements for new measures proposing that the employees who are not vaccinated at work can appear only with a negative PCR test. The Cabinet of the Minister does not have a specific answer to the question of A1on: are the new measures considering introducing a single test price or price limit?

"The Law on Health Care regulates the price for persons who pay for health services for detection of infectious disease (by PCR method or by applying another method approved by the Ministry of Health), with personal funds." is stated in the response from the Ministry.

For the time being, the health authorities do not have an answer to the question why all previous attempts to limit the cost of PCR testing, in which part of the private clinics volunteered, failed, but a final agreement was still not reached.

What has been achieved is only a lower cost of tests in public health facilities, after patients showed an invoice that the Health Fund pays to state laboratories for testing that is free for policyholders. Patients reported that the Fund paid public health institutions three to four times the cost of testing that citizens paid for in private laboratories. In the private laboratories there were tests for 1200 denars, and the Fund transferred to the public institutions 4950 denars for one test. After the reactions of the public, last September the Health Fund reduced the prices by more than 50 percent and for one test started to transfer 1850 denars, reminds A1on.

The announcements that the unvaccinated employees in order to go to work will be obligatory to have a negative test, and especially the agreement with the Trade Unions for the test to be paid by the employer, met with many reactions in the public. The government was to decide at a session on Tuesday who will pay for the tests, as well as the mandatory vaccine for health workers., but the hearing was postponed due to a bus accident in Bulgaria. The proposed measures will be considered at the next session.

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