Assistance for health
In terms of the social assistance statistics - recipients of assistance according to chapter 5 to 9 SGB XII of the Federal Statistical Office:
Assistance for health includes
- the preventive health assistance (§ 47 SGB XII),
- the assistance for disease (§ 48 SGB XII),
- the assistance for family planning (§ 49 SGB XII),
- the assistance for pregnancy and maternity (§ 50 SGB XII)
- as well as the assistance for sterilisation (§ 51 SGB XII).
These services are only reported, when they were effected directly by the social assistance institution. Since 2004, in case of need a statutory health insurance institution according to § 264 SGB V chosen by the beneficiary takes over the medical treatment. The health insurance institution, which must be based in the region of the social assistance institution is responsible for the assistance, issues a health insurance card for the beneficiary, as if he or she were insured with that health insurance institution. The beneficiaries have therefore legally the status of insured persons, without really being insured. The costs for the health insurance institutions, which arise from these persons, are afterwards refunded by the responsible social assistance institutions. Included in the official social assistance statistics are those persons, who are not insured in the statutory health insurance, whose treatment costs in case of need are, however, transacted via the health insurance institution according to § 264 Abs. 2 SGB V and later refunded by the social assistance institution. Starting from the reporting year 2005, these persons are no longer considered in the total number of recipients of assistance according to chapter 5 to 9 SGB XII, because the official statistics has no information, whether any assistance was indeed received during the year. Only beneficiaries, who are not expected to receive at least one month of continuous livelihood assistance according to chapter 3 SGB XII (for example persons of no fixed abode), get no medical treatment via the health insurance institutions. The necessary medical care for these persons is provided by the social welfare offices, for example, by direct reimbursement of medical services.
Selected information about "Assistance for health":
Tables:
- Social assistance, assistance according to chapter 5 to 9 SGB XII at the end of a year, e.g. by age
- Social assistance, assistance according to chapter 5 to 9 SGB XII at the end of a year, e.g. by region
- Social assistance, assistance according to chapter 5 to 9 SGB XII during the reporting year, e.g. by age
- Social assistance, assistance according to chapter 5 to 9 SGB XII during the reporting year, e.g. by region
- Social assistance, expenditure and revenues starting from 2005
Data Sources:
- Public assistance statistics - recipients of benefits according to chapter 5 to 9 SGB XII - Methods [general]
- Public assistance statistics - recipients of benefits according to chapter 5 to 9 SGB XII
Definitions:
- Assistance according to chapter 5 to 9 SGB XII
- Expenditure for assistance for health care
- Social assistance
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