The user fee paid for a visit to a general practitioner should be 3.90 leva for the period November-December 2025, and from January 2026 - to reach about half a percent of the minimum wage. Today, a decision was made to increase the MPH to 620 euros or 1213 leva, of which 0.5% is approximately 6 leva.
This is stated in a statement by the National Association of General Practitioners in Bulgaria, published on the association's website.
The statement has been sent to the Ministry of Health, the National Health Insurance Fund, and the Bulgarian Medical Union. The same fee should be paid when visiting a dentist.
Pensioners should pay 1.95 leva when visiting their personal doctor, the association also proposes. The association also suggests that institutions that exempt certain groups of the population from fees should include amounts in their budgets to compensate doctors.
At the end of August, general practitioners and doctors specializing in pre-hospital care requested that the user fee be increased, but did not commit to a specific amount.
Health-insured patients owe a user fee for each visit to a general practitioner, a doctor from specialized outpatient medical care or a dentist, as well as for each day of hospital treatment, but not more than 10 days per year.
The amount of the fee of 2.90 leva was determined by Decree 193 of the Council of Ministers of August 28, 2012. The fee that was determined for a hospital stay was 5.80 leva, but in April of this year in the Transitional and Final Provisions of the Decree on the Implementation of the State Budget of the Republic of Bulgaria for 2025 of the Council of Ministers, this fee was reduced to one leva.