Key legal question
Whether the cantonal social insurance court had jurisdiction over the appeal against the Zurich Health Directorate's decision on future financing practice for elective treatments.
Extracted holding
No federal-law basis existed for jurisdiction under the ATSG/KVG framework; the matter was a tariff dispute governed by cantonal law, so the social insurance court could not derive jurisdiction from federal law.
Extracted reasoning
The challenged measure concerned general principles of future reimbursement practice under Art. 49a KVG, not a concrete benefit claim. Because disputes of this kind fall outside Art. 1 Abs. 2 lit. b KVG, ATSG rules do not apply and jurisdiction must be determined solely by cantonal law.