CAK

European Social and Health Policy focus

Regulations 883/2004 and 987/2009

Brexit

Labour Mobility Package

Directive 2011/24/EU on the application of patient's rights in cross-border healthcare

Aim, structure and tasks of the organization

The CAK is a public organisation which carries out the following tasks:

- the financing of healthcare providers who provide long-term care under the Long Term Care Act

- the calculation and collection of personal benefits of insured persons residing in long-term care institutions and persons who receive support under the Social Support Act

- the collection of contribution imposed on people who take out health insurance and fail to pay for their insurance premium

- imposing fines on unisured persons without health insurance

- ensuring healthcare coverage for persons living abroad and who are not insured under the international/EU coordination regulations – international liaison office for benefits in kind.

- reimbursing care providers for costs of medical care to foreigners without a residence permit in the Netherlands

- implementing the National Contact Point for cross-brder healthcare