The Place of Foreign Medical Treatment in the Hungarian Health Insurance System

– With Special Regard to the Possibilities Arising from the European Union Regulations

Abstract

The coordination of social security systems in the European Union aims to contribute to one of the most important principles of the single internal market, the free movement of persons. One very important aspect of this is that EU citizens have the opportunity to receive healthcare in another Member State of the European Economic Area or Switzerland, by financing the health insurance system of the Member State of affiliation. However, this will depend to a large extent on the involvement of the Member States, who will be responsible for developing the administrative, institutional and country-specific normative content of cross-border access to healthcare. Within the framework of the present study, the place of foreign medical treatment according to these EU rules in the domestic health insurance system will be examined, with special regard to the procedural rules of use.