Diederik Schrijvershof, Leah Peeters and Noah Schütten assist the Royal Dutch Organisation of Midwives (KNOV) in an objection procedure before the Dutch Healthcare Authority (NZa). The KNOV's objection relates to the NZa's Tariff Decision for midwifery care for 2026. In terms of content, the objections relate, among other things, to the normative labour component (NAC) applied by the NZa.
On 2 July 2025, Maverick Advocaten won preliminary relief proceedings before the civil court on behalf of the National Association of Independent Psychologists & Psychotherapists (LVVP) concerning similar issues in the 2026 mental healthcare tariff decision. The NZa did not appeal this ruling and subsequently adjusted the 2026 tariffs for LVVP members, as can be seen here. Specifically, the NZa based the 2026 tariffs for independent healthcare psychologists, clinical (neuro)psychologists, and psychotherapists on the 2025 tariffs. After indexation, the tariffs for LVVP members will increase by an average of 5.2% compared to 2025.
- Maverick Advocaten regularly assists (trade associations of) healthcare providers in securing cost-covering NZa tariffs or challenging insufficient (revenue) ceilings. For example, Maverick successfully litigated before the Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal (CBb) on behalf of forensic care providers against an NZa tariff decision, and previously achieved success at the CBb on behalf of Stichting De Bevlogen Huisartsen and 129 individual general practicioners against the Tariff Decision for General Practitioner and Multidisciplinary Care 2023, see here.
- Maverick Advocaten has previously achieved success in numerous (interim) proceedings for healthcare providers to achieve realistic rates for healthcare procurement in areas such as orthopedic footwear, primary diagnostics (also on appeal, STAR judgment), general practitioner care, acute mental health care (also here), forensic care, youth care, SGLVG care, Wlz care (also on appeal), Wmo care (see also here).
- Furthermore, Maverick Advocaten represents healthcare providers in cases before the NZa and ACM against abuses of purchasing power by health insurers (see here, here, and here) and has for years advocated for effective enforcement of the statutory (procurement) obligations of health insurers, see here and here.
For more information about how tariffs in the healthcare sector are established, see this interview in Zorgvisie about the STAR-ruling, this blog and this blog, as well as this interview in Zorgvisie. For more information on healthcare providers' rights to obtain fair tariffs, the obligations of healthcare purchasers, and options for challenging NZa tariff decisions, visit https://www.zorgcontractering.com/ and see the briefing below.
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