Payments to Czech suppliers caught up in state dispute
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Suppliers of medical devices to the Czech state healthcare service are wondering how they will ever be paid for their products supplied prior to December 2002 because of a bureaucratic stalemate between the government and the regions. Czech hospitals owe member of the Czech medical device trade association, CzechMed, a total of CKr 1,170m ($44.2m). Of this, CKr 400m is owed by district hospitals.