Review of own-payment in compensation

Minister of the Interior and Health Sophie Løhde will initiate an evaluation of the own contribution in patient compensation cases. The evaluation will serve as a basis for deciding whether to change the own contribution, she told TV 2. “I think we should look at this scheme and whether we can put it together more appropriately,” says Sophie Løhde. This comes after TV 2 reported on Sunday about Henriette Haahr Christensen, who has lost two-thirds of her compensation for her own contribution after her heart surgery went wrong. “I can’t make sense of it. Surely it cannot be reasonable that there should be a self-payment for someone having carried out mistake operation. “It’s crazy,” she says.
     The own contribution is a fee imposed on the patient in a patient compensation case. The rate is currently 8,305 kroner but has increased over the last few years. It was introduced by a unanimous parliament in 2017 to fund a number of other expansions in the patient compensation system. Since then, it has met with criticism on several occasions. Among other things, from the parties that introduced the fee. /ritzau/