Costs for health care
The Audio Laser Clinic is a private health care alternative and is not included in the official health care fee system. The Audio Laser Clinic is situated in Kronobergs län where Landstinget Kronoberg is responsible for the official health care.
The Audio Laser Clinic is constantly informing and discussing matters in health care with regional politicians, doctors and other people in the staff in order to improve health care.
EU directives and verdicts of the European Court
There are no Swedish laws or regulations, EU directives or precedent verdicts in the European court for human rights giving Swedish citizens the right to choose private health care alternatives for the same cost as official health care. But there are for citizens from other EU membership countries.
The European Court states in several verdicts that citizens in other EU membership countries have the right to go to any other EU membership country to get the treatment if the following requirements are fulfilled.
The treatment must be regarded as normal in the professional circles concerned. This expression means that the treatment must be regarded as normal is construed to the effect that authorization cannot be refused on that ground where it appears that the treatment concerned is sufficiently tried and tested by international medical science.
Authorization regarding payment for the treatment can be refused on the ground of lack of medical necessity only if the same or equally effective treatment can be obtained without undue delay at an establishment having a contractual arrangement with the insured person's sickness insurance fund.
If the requirements are fulfilled, the home country of the citizen getting treatment abroad must pay the costs for treatment.
Several patients have from their home countries received payment for their medical treatment at the Audio Laser Clinic.
Laser therapy in combination with the treatment with pulsed electromagnetic field therapy (rTMS) and analysis and control of free radicals is not carried thru at any other clinic in any other European Union membership country, so citizens from all European Union membership countries can come tothe Audio Laser Clinic in Sweden and get the treatment and have it paid by the home countries.
Waiting list
The health care offered at the Audio Laser Clinic is at the moment carried through during two treatment periods per year. There is at the moment no waiting list. All patients wanting to undergo the treatment at the Audio Laser Clinic can do so during the next treatment period. In Italy the same laser therapy is conducted at hospitals that are financed by the government. The waiting list there is about a year long.
Costs at the Audio Laser Clinic
1 examination: SEK 700
1 FORT test (blood sample test and analysis of free radicals): SEK 300
1 hearing test: SEK 200
1 treatment session: SEK 700
1 treatment period for hearing and balance disorders (20 treatment sessions): SEK 14 000