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By constantly surveying those TK insurees with planned EU cross-border treatment, TK continues to further improve its potential of services and benefits: this includes, above all, consulting on services as well as quality and costs, but also co-operation agreements with hospitals, dental hospitals, as well as spa and rehabilitation facilities. This also covers co-operation agreements with hospitals, dental hospitals, as well as spa and rehabilitation facilities in other EU Member States. At the same time, the Scientific Institute of TK for Benefits and Efficiency in Health Care (WINEG) thus creates a valuable set of primary data on this subject which does not yet exist. The analysis of these data leads to knowledge which can contribute to the political debate on health care issues in cross-border health care.
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See Directive 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2011 on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border health care. Official Journal of the European Union dated 4.4.2011 No. L 88/45.
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See Gesetz zur Modernisierung der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung [Statutory Health Insurance Modernisation Act] dated 14 November 2003 | Bundesgesetzblatt 2003 Part 1 No. 55, p. 2190.
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“Researchers found an estimated 7,146 German pensioners living in retirement homes in Hungary in 2011. More than 3,000 had been sent to homes in the Czech Republic, and there were more than 600 in Slovakia. There are also unknown numbers in Spain, Greece and Ukraine.” Connolly 2012.
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Wagner C, Meckel AK, Verheyen F (2011) EU Cross-border Health Care Survey 2010 – Quality, Service and Satisfaction. In: Klusen N, Verheyen F, Wagner C (eds) England and Germany in Europe – What Lessons Can We Learn From Each Other? Beiträge zum Gesundheitsmanagement [Contributions to Health Care Management], Vol. 32. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, pp. 113–129
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Wagner, C., Verheyen, F. (2014). Aspects of Planned EU Cross-border Care. In: Hennion, S., Kaufmann, O. (eds) Unionsbürgerschaft und Patientenfreizügigkeit Citoyenneté Européenne et Libre Circulation des Patients EU Citizenship and Free Movement of Patients. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41311-7_8
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