New medical procedures most of them related to the diagnostics of auto-immune diseases have emerged at the end of the chapter No. 813 called an allergology and immunology laboratory of the List of Medical Procedures with Point Scores from 2002 (List of Acts No. 101/2002, part 44). The paper provides basic information on new medical procedures and deals with the impact of new diagnostic procedures to clinical practice and reasons for including these procedures to the List of Medical Procedures with Point Scores.

        Key words: antibodies – Helicobacter pylori – mannose binding leptin – auto-antibodies – indirect immuno-florescence – beta-2-glycoprotein – asialoglycoprotein receptor – diabetes mellitus – nephelometry – turbidimetry – phagocytosis