Art. 31. (1) The provider of medical or dental care operates under the rules of good medical practice and established medical standards, while maintaining professional confidentiality and patient rights. 

(2) The provider under par. 1 explains to the Person holding compulsory health insurance the nature of the necessary testing, procedures, physical and operative interventions and the risk they pose, and performs them after the patient’s consent. 

(3) The information under par. 2 is provided to the patient in advance or at the earliest possible stage and in a manner which enables him or her to understand it and make an independent and free choice. For minors and persons lacking capacity choices are made and consent is given by their parents and guardians. 

(4) The provider of medical or dental care may withhold the information under par. 3, if he or she considers that this could cause serious damage to the mental or physical health of the patient. In these cases he or she is obliged to provide it to the spouse, parents (guardians), other lineal relatives, collateral relatives up to and including second degree. 

Art. 32. (1) The provider of medical or dental care may not apply diagnostic and treatment methods, which: 

1. Are not recognized in medical practice, contradict medical science and pose a risk to the health and life of the patient; 

2. Lead to a temporary change in the state of consciousness without the consent of the patient, except for life-threatening conditions requiring urgent intervention, in the event of impossibility to take written consent of the spouse or relatives under art. 31, par. 4. 

(2) Medical or dental care may not be delivered to persons who impede such delivery, with the exception of life-threatening situations. 

Art. 33. The providers of medical or dental asssitance shall: 

1. Provide affordable medical or dental care and comply with the rules of good medical practice under the terms of the National frame contract; 

2. Provide medical or dental care by type and volume corresponding to the contract; 

3. Prescribe medications paid wholly or partly by the NHIF – except for providers of hospital medical care and hospital dental care; 

4. Prescribe medication types and quantities consistent with the requirements of the National frame contract and other existing regulations; 

5. Do not request payment or copayment from Persons holding compulsory health insurance, for activities paid wholly or partly by the NHIF according to the contract, beyond the amount stipulated in the contract, excluding for supplies, mentioned for specific clinical pathways, as well as in cases of a negotiated in the National frame contract payment for dental care; 

6. Provide the required from NHIF information in terms, structure and format specified in the contract; 

7. Provide NHIF officials access to documentation related to reporting the performed activities; 

8. Do not disclose information, concerning the Person holding compulsory health insurance, that has become available in connection with providing medical or dental care, except in cases mentioned in the law.