Outpatient treatment means there's no need to stay in a hospital or other treatment facility around the clock. Patients only come for specific tests or procedures, for example, to a specialist clinic.
During your appointment, the specialist will assess your health and recommend a further course of treatment based on diagnostic tests. You'll also learn whether a one-time consultation will suffice or if you'll need specialist care.
You will receive tests, medicines and medical devices free of charge to the extent necessary to provide guaranteed services.
The specialist must inform your family doctor about, among other things, your treatment regimen, the medications you're taking, and your follow-up appointments. You'll also receive a certificate from your specialist detailing your diagnosis and the recommended pharmacotherapy (treatment of illnesses with medication). Based on this, your primary care doctor can issue prescriptions for your treatment.
More information about outpatient treatment can be found at: http://www.archiwum.mz.gov.pl/leczenie/ambulatoryjna-opieka-specjalistyczna/
In most cases, to see a specialist, you need a referral from your primary care physician (or other health insurance doctor).
A referral is not required for:
• gynecologist and obstetrician
• dentist
• venereologist
• oncologist
• psychiatrist
• clinics for people suffering from tuberculosis
• clinics for people infected with HIV
Once you register for a specialist clinic, you must submit your original referral within 14 business days of registration. Failure to do so will result in you being removed from the waiting list.
• specialist advice
• diagnostic tests
• outpatient procedures
• chemotherapy benefits
• other outpatient services:
• peritoneal dialysis,
• hemodialysis,
• oxygen therapy at home,
• parenteral nutrition at home: total parenteral nutrition,
• enteral nutrition at home: enteral nutrition,
• making a plug for the eyeball prosthesis,
• enlargement of the individual eyeball prosthesis,
• repair and renovation of facial prostheses,
• making and supplying a facial prosthesis,
• making and fitting a nasal prosthesis,
• making and fitting an earlobe prosthesis,
• fabrication and provision of a prosthetic eyeball, lip and nose,
• insulin treatment with the use of an insulin pump: insertion of an insulin pump,
• hyperbaric oxygenation,
• isotope therapy,
• radical, palliative and teleradiotherapy in the treatment of skin diseases,
• conformal teleradiotherapy with CT monitoring, gated, with dose intensity modulation, electrons, photons,
• standard brachytherapy,
• brachytherapy with 3D planning,
• home intravenous antibiotic therapy in the treatment of bronchopulmonary exacerbations in patients with cystic fibrosis. Administration of antibiotics intravenously or by infusion,
• comprehensive care after myocardial infarction.