Pharmacy care providers with a contract with a health insurance company may be required to register in the Public Sector Partner Registry. Find out which providers are subject to this requirement and what financial thresholds determine eligibility for registration in the RPVS.
On February 1, 2017, Act No. 315/2016 Coll. on the Register of Public Sector Partners and on Amendments to Certain Acts (hereinafter referred to as the “Act on the RPVS”). The purpose of the RPVS Act is to establish a register of public sector partners and to regulate related matters in order to legislatively define the requirements for entities with which the state, or public law entities enter into legal relationships, or within which a third party receives any consideration, including the sale of state property. Pursuant to Section 2 of the RPVS Act, a public sector partner is considered to be, in addition to other entities listed in this provision, a natural or legal person who is not a public administration entity and who is a healthcare provider that has concluded a contract with a health insurance company for the provision of healthcare. According to Act No. 576/2004 Coll. on Healthcare, services related to the provision of healthcare, and on amendments to certain laws (hereinafter referred to as the “Healthcare Act”), pharmacy care is also considered one of the forms of healthcare provision. It follows from the above that pharmacy care providers who have concluded a contract for the provision of healthcare with a health insurance company are required to register in the public sector partner registry. However, the obligation to be registered in the register of public sector partners applies only to those pharmacy care providers who are to receive a one-time payment exceeding 100,000 euros or, in the case of recurring payments, a total exceeding 250,000 euros in a calendar year. The RPVS Act further stipulates that a healthcare provider—and thus also a pharmacy care provider—who meets the above-mentioned legal conditions is required to ensure their registration in the Register of Public Sector Partners by July 31, July 2017.
