Hungarian Gazette 2025/23
Summary
Government Decree 29/2025. (III. 5.) regulates the digital appointment booking system for outpatient specialist care, prescribing that the relevant healthcare providers make 100% of their available appointments accessible in the system, while both the patient and the referring physician are free to book an appointment even at a provider to which the patient is not territorially obligated. The amendment also introduces a financial incentive for providers performing diagnostic imaging examinations, whose annual budget framework may be increased if they ensure the availability of digital booking. In addition, a technical name-change entry is also made, as the tasks of the National Institute of Locomotor Diseases have been taken over by the Semmelweis
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HUNGARIAN OFFICIAL GAZETTE · Issue 23 of 2025
III. Government Decrees
Government Decree No. 29/2025. (III. 5.) on the amendment of government decrees concerning healthcare services
[1] A key objective of the Government is to ensure more efficient and citizen-friendly operation of the digital appointment booking system for outpatient specialist care.
[2] In order to ensure this objective, it is prescribed that providers of outpatient specialist care shall offer appointments to the digital appointment booking system in a specified proportion, and that both the patient and the referring physician may freely book an appointment with a referral.
[3] In order to enable providers of outpatient specialist care to plan the offering of appointments in the prescribed proportion, the amendment provides a transitional period for the fulfilment of this obligation.
[4] For the purpose of incentivising providers, the amendment ensures that the planned annual framework of outpatient specialist care providers performing certain diagnostic imaging examinations may be increased if they provide the digital appointment booking system service in respect of such examinations.
[5] Given that the tasks of the National Institute of Locomotor Diseases are performed by Semmelweis University, a technical amendment of the related decrees is necessary in order to reflect the change of name.
[6] The Government
on the basis of the authorisation granted in point e) of subsection (2) of Section 83 of Act LXXXIII of 1997 on the Services of Compulsory Health Insurance,…