The Supreme Administrative Council: Limiting pensioners’ benefit from sickness insurance to treatment without transportation expenses
The Supreme Administrative Court of the State Council confirmed that the provisions of the law No. 148 of 2019, regarding health insurance, sickness insurance is financed with a share estimated at (1%) of the pension for pensioners who benefit from the provisions of treatment and medical care, and with (2%) of the pension for those entitled to benefit from the provisions of treatment and medical care.
The law obligates the health insurance authority to treat the injured or sick person and provide medical care for him, until He is cured or his disability is proven, and in accordance with Article (78) of this law, The authority responsible for disbursing the wage compensation shall bear the patient’s transportation expenses, by normal means of transportation from the place of residence to the place of treatment. If it is located outside the city in which he resides, and by private means of transportation when the treating physician decides, The patient’s health condition does not allow him to use normal means of transportation.
The court added that the law limits the rights of pensioners or those entitled to benefit from insurance The sick person is subject to the provisions of treatment and medical care, without the provisions of wage compensation and transportation expenses being applied to them.
This came in a judicial ruling issued by the Supreme Administrative Court, and the appeal was filed. No. 3238 of 68 BC. O.
