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Apply for registration in the doctor's register

If you wish to work as a contracted physician or psychotherapist in outpatient care, you must register in the doctor's register.

Detailed description

Registration in the doctor's register is a basic requirement for your approval or employment as a statutory health insurance doctor or psychotherapist. The statutory health insurance associations maintain a doctor's register for each registration district. The statutory health insurance association in whose area of responsibility your place of residence is located is responsible for your registration in the doctor's register.

 

Information

Prerequisites

  • You are licensed as a doctor.
  • You have completed specialist training or training acquired in another EU Member State in accordance with Directive 2005/36 EC.

To be registered as a psychological psychotherapist you also need:

  • You are qualified as a psychological psychotherapist.
  • You have obtained a qualification in the guideline procedure of psychotherapy.

Documents required

  • birth certificate
  • Certificates that prove a possible change of name or the right to use a double name (e.g. marriage certificate)
  • license to practice medicine
  • if applicable, certificate of completion of studies
  • Certificate of specialist recognition or qualification in the guideline procedure for psychotherapy
  • Evidence/certificates of previous medical/psychotherapeutic activity
  • Certificates of completed training
  • Doctoral certificate or proof of the right to use academic degrees or titles
  • if applicable, proof of nationality
  • for foreign-language documents: translation by a state-recognized translator or a translator who is court-appointed in Germany
  • for documents from third countries (outside the European Union): apostille or legalisation

You must submit the original documents or an officially certified copy. The medical register can, under certain circumstances, produce corresponding certifications.

Please note

Registration in the medical register of a statutory health insurance association is not the same as registration in the register maintained by the state medical association.

Deadlines

No

Procedure

  • You submit your application to the responsible authority in writing using the application form and enclose all necessary documents.
  • If you have submitted the required documents and paid the registration fee, you are entitled to be entered in the medical register.
  • You will then receive written information about your entry in the medical register.

Processing time

about 2 – 3 weeks

Fees

100,00 EUR

Legal remedies


  • Contradiction

  • legal action

Legal basis

§§ 1 - 10 Licensing Ordinance for Contracted Physicians (Ärzte-ZV) (Doctors' Register)


https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/zo-_rzte/BJNR005720957.html


§ 95 a Fifth Book of the Social Code (SGB V) (requirement for entry in the doctor's register for contract doctors)


https://www.sociallawbook-sgb.de/sgbv/95a.html


§ 95 c Book Five of the Social Code (SGB V) (requirements for the registration of psychotherapists in the medical register)


https://www.sociallawbook-sgb.de/sgbv/95c.html


Article 30 in conjunction with Annex V.1 of Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications


https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/?uri=celex:32005L0036

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Last updated: 09.02.2026