Detailed description
Please note: The following information is based on the provisions of the Federal Social Security Act, which has since expired. Similar benefits are now provided under Book XIV of the Social Code (SGB XIV). We will be able to provide you with more detailed information on this shortly. Until then, please contact the office listed at the bottom of this page with any related concerns.
As a disabled person, you are entitled to medical treatment for recognized health conditions. If you are severely disabled, benefits are also provided for conditions unrelated to the care provided, if and to the extent that they are not covered by other means (e.g., through membership in statutory health insurance). Under the same conditions, family members, caregivers, and all surviving dependents can receive medical treatment.
The type and scope of benefits generally correspond to those of statutory health insurance.
The treatment includes
- outpatient medical and dental treatment,
- Supply of medicines and dressings,
- Provision of medical treatments including physiotherapy, exercise therapy, speech therapy and occupational therapy as well as glasses and contact lenses
- Provision of dentures,
- Treatment in a hospital
- Treatment in a rehabilitation facility,
- home nursing,
- Provision of aids,
- Stress testing and occupational therapy,
- non-medical social pediatric services,
- Psychotherapy as medical and psychotherapeutic treatment and sociotherapy.