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 “RPVS Act”) came into effect. The purpose of the RPVS Act is to establish a register of public sector partners and to regulate related issues 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 performance, including the sale of state property. public law entities enter into legal relationships, or within which a third party receives any performance, including the sale of state property. Within the meaning of Section 2 of the RPVS Act, a public sector partner is, in addition to the entities listed in that 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 acts (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 register of public sector partners. However, the obligation to be registered in the register of public sector partners only applies to those pharmacy care providers who are to receive a one-off payment exceeding EUR 100,000 or a total amount exceeding EUR 250,000 in a calendar year in the case of recurring payments. The RPVS Act further states that healthcare providers, including pharmacy care providers, who meet the above legal conditions are required to ensure their registration in the register of public sector partners by July 31, 2017, at the latest.
