Be Ready to use a Ticket Machine in Czech Hospitals

If you get sick during your stay in Prague, it is good thing to know a new system of payments for health care is going to be established. The main change is patients have to take some cash with them, to pay for an investigation or for a visit of an emergency.

That is a first step to a large reform of Czech Health care, worked out by Tomas Julinek and Tomas Cikrt.

Part of hospitals plans that there will be machines placed on corridors, similar to those at car parks, bringing out tickets. How much do we pay precisely?

Charges for health care in the Czech Republic since January 2008:

A prescription – 20 CZK
A visit at a specialist – 50 CZK
A day at a hospital – 50 CZK
A visit at an emergency – 50 CZK
A visit at a general practitioner, some diagnosis – 50 CZK