2 Amendments of Riitta MYLLER related to 2008/0142(COD)
Amendment 524 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Member States may offer patients a voluntary prior authorisation system whereby, in return for such authorisation, the patient shall receive a service voucher specifying the treatments eligible for reimbursement and the actual cost thereof. The service voucher is exchangeable at the hospital of treatment, and reimbursement shall later be made directly by the Member State of affiliation.
Amendment 624 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 2
Article 14 – paragraph 2
2. For facilitating the implementation of paragraph 1,Paragraph 1 above shall enter into force when the Commission shalls sufficiently adopted: (a) measures enabling a pharmacist or other health professional to verify the authenticity of the prescription and whether the prescription was issued in another Member State by an authorised person through developing a Community prescription template, and supporting interoperability of ePrescriptions; (b) measures to ensure that medicinal products prescribed in one Member State and dispensed in another are correctly identified and that the information to patients concerning the product is comprehensible; (c) measures to exclude specific categories of medicinal products from the recognition of prescriptions provided for under this article where necessary in order to safeguard public health.