A direct consequence of this systematic exclusion of services, are dental extractions which, in most cases, could be avoided [ 31].
In the case of Portugal, there has been budget and personnel reduction of public hospitals [ 35], doubling of user fees (applicable to households above a certain level), cuts in reimbursement of medicines, and exclusion of services from insurance coverage [ 36].
While the Federal Joint Committee decides on the in- and exclusion of services into the benefit package, the Valuation Committee, which consists of seven representatives of the Federal Association of SHI Physicians and representatives of the federal associations of sickness funds, defines the actual benefit catalogue for the insured, the Uniform Value Scale EBMM).
Strategies employed to prevent the exclusion of services to these individuals include connecting an infant's record to the fingerprints of their legal guardians and enrolling multiple fingerprints for manual laborers and the elderly to increase matching accuracy, as well as using secondary identification tags, such as their name or location, as a backup.
With the right kind of support and advice, local groups can make a profound impact on social problems – not to the exclusion of public services, but to help public services achieve their goals.
What it cares about is promoting its own services to the exclusion of rival services.
Given the exclusion of health services from the EU's services directive, this is a challenging sector to discuss in any trade agreement with the EU.
Another important issue which is pertinent to the EU's bilateral relations with non-member countries is the exclusion of health services from the scope of the EU services directive.
As hospital inpatient services are major cost drivers following falls in this age group [ 9, 36, 37] exclusion of outpatient services was not expected to alter cost-effectiveness substantially, but was explored in a sensitivity analysis.
"France has consistently defended the exclusion of audiovisual services from free trade agreements," he wrote.
