Temporary home care doctor visits are arranged for elderly clients, especially in rapid crisis situations. Only small revenues have been generated from payments in recent years.
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Helsinki In the future, temporary clients of home care will no longer be charged a client fee of 15 euros if the doctor makes a home visit.
Since the beginning of the year, no more fees have been charged for home visits to doctors who are temporarily receiving home care.
The extension of free of charge to all home care ad hoc clients has been proposed in a recent council initiative.
In the preparation of civil servants, it has been decided to support the initiative because the customer fee income is small. Temporary home care doctor visits are arranged for elderly clients, especially in rapid crisis situations where the client is not yet a client of regular home care.
Temporary In 2020, the fee income from home care doctor visits was approximately EUR 41,000. The figure includes payments from customers for long-term enhanced service housing.
The City of Vantaa charges EUR 15.20 for temporary home care and the City of Espoo charges EUR 15.
In 2012, Helsinki decided not to charge customer fees for medical visits to the health center either.
The Social and Health Committee will discuss the initiative on Tuesday.
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