Health insurer says cost of proton therapy in Prague higher than in Munich

The biggest Czech health insurance company VZP has announced it will stop sending cancer patients to the Prague Proton Therapy Centre and arrange for them to get treatment in Munich instead. The health insurer, which has been locked in a drawn-out dispute with the center over a dubious contract signed in the past, claims that the proton therapy center has doubled the cost of treatment since the summer and the price of treating a patient is now significantly higher than it would be in Munich. The insurer refuses to recognize the dubious contract signed in the past and the cost of treatment for each patient is now being settled individually.