Supplementary rehabilitation services for those with health insurance

Prerequisites

• You must be required to provide supplementary rehabilitation services in order to achieve or secure the goal of rehabilitation.
• Medical treatment must already have been provided or will still be provided by the health insurance company.

Documents required

• Application for supplementary rehabilitation benefits
• Medical prescription or statement from the doctor treating you

Please note

No

Deadlines

No

Procedure

The application for benefits is usually made as follows:

1. Prescription by your doctor
2. Application for health insurance
3. decision of the health insurance company
4. Beginning of supplementary rehabilitation benefits

Processing time

Please ask your health insurance company about the processing time.

Fees

There are usually no fees. Please contact your health insurance company for more information.

Legal remedies

No information is available on legal remedies.

Legal basis

Designation: § 43 Fifth Book of the Social Code (SGB V)

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/sgb_5/__43.html

Supplementary rehabilitation benefits are granted to you in whole or in part in addition to medical rehabilitation in order to achieve or secure the rehabilitation goal. This is done at the discretion and on medical orders. These include, for example, the following offers:

• patient training for the chronically ill,
• rehabilitation sport and functional training,
• socio-medical aftercare measures for chronically ill or seriously ill children and young people.

The services must be medically necessary and prescribed by a doctor.