Statutory health insurance
In terms of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians:Approximately 90 percent of the citizens of the Federal Republic are secured against disease risks via one of currently 262 (as of 1 July 2005) health insurance funds. The entitlements to benefits are approximately equal for all members and regulated in the Social Security Code. The contributions are determined according to the insured person's share of income that is subject to contributions: The employer pays a certain percentage of the salary on behalf of the employee to the respective health insurance fund and just as high an amount the employer pays directly. Family members are jointly insured free of charge in the statutory health insurance. Members have nothing to do with doctor's bills. They consult a doctor and after that the doctor settles his bill with the so-called Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (regional).
Updated: 12 Apr 2013
Selected information about "Statutory health insurance":
Tables:
- Co-payments in the Statutory Health Insurance, cases in which the maximum burden is exceeded
- Co-payments of private households
- Early recognition of cancerous illnesses
- Hospital stays, persons insured in the Statutory Health Insurance
- Inability to work, members of the Statutory Health Insurance
- Measures for the early recognition of illnesses, persons insured in the statutory health insurance and their children
- Members of the Statutory Health Insurance, annual average
- Outpatient operations according to § 115b SGB V in hospitals, persons insured in the Statutory Health Insurance
- Practitioners, treatment of persons insured in the statutory health insurance
- Rehabilitation measures, persons insured in the SHI (2000 bis 2013)
- Rescue journeys and patients' transport, persons insured in the Statutory Health Insurance
- Sick pay
- Statutory health insurance, income and expenditure
Definitions:
- Compulsorily insured in the statutory health insurance (microcensus)
- Doctor's fee scale (Einheitlicher Bewertungsmaßstab)
- Negative list
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