Health insurers oppose HSE case over payment of hospital charges

📆 4/1/2019 6:32 PM
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Case centres on liability for entire duration of private patient’s stay in public hospital

in opposing claims by the HSE concerning the payment of charges for the treatment of private patients in public hospitals.

The HSE maintains the Health Act allows it to charge patients as private patients where there is an election to be treated as a private patient for the entirety of their stay in a hospital. Mr Justice Robert Haughton, having sought and received an undertaking from ILH to pay its own costs, granted counsel’s application.

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