Czechoslovak national insurance : a contribution to the pattern of social security the Czechoslovak National insurance act.

  • Czechoslovakia.
Date:
[1948]
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Credit: Czechoslovak national insurance : a contribution to the pattern of social security the Czechoslovak National insurance act. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    58. (1) The insurance institution shall be entitled to supervise patients by way of its confidential doctors and to supervise patients by other persons empowered thereto by the insurance institution, and also by visits to the homes of patients. (2) If a patient refuses to submit to supervision under subsection 1 of this section, or if he does not conduct himself in accordance with the provisions of the treatment code, he may be deprived of benefit wholly or partly. The patient shall be informed of this eventual- ity in advance. (3) Where a patient has been deprived of sickness benefit under subsection 2 of this section, the depend- ants of that patient shall be entitled to benefit at a rate not less than one-half of the rate of benefit. 4 Un Treatment Code (1) The Central National Insurance Institution shall issue a treatment code after consultation with the united trade union organisation and the interest associations, and subject to the approval of the Minister of Social Welfare and of the Minister of Health. (2) The treatment code shall prescribe the manner of administration of benefit and the duties of insured persons, employers, and of doctors and other organs of the health service under the benefit scheme. (3) The treatment code shall further prescribe, in particular: a) the manner and conditions on which benefit in kind shall be administered, as well as the condit- 10ns on which travel expenses shall be payable by the insurance institution, b) on what grounds and to what extent treatment by specialists shall be provided, c) the manner in which notice of incapacitv for-work