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Apply for medical rehabilitation benefits in accordance with SGB V to avoid the need for long-term care and restrictions on gainful employment
After the occurrence of an insured event (accident at work, commuting accident, occupational disease), the statutory accident insurance covers the costs of the necessary medical rehabilitation.
Your responsible authority
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Detailed description
In the event of an insured event, you will receive, among other things, medical benefits if there is no other way to maintain your earning capacity or if there is no other way to avoid the need for care.
After the occurrence of an insured event, the accident insurance institutions have the task of restoring performance by all appropriate means.
Treatment can be provided on an outpatient or inpatient basis.
You will receive all the services that are necessary for the care. These include, for example:- Medical treatment
-Nursing
- Supply of medicines, bandages, remedies and aids
- Treatment in hospitals and rehabilitation facilities
Damage to health that requires special trauma medical treatment is treated in special facilities.
All these services are targeted within the framework of rehabilitation management and coordinated with the treating doctors, physiotherapists and you and accompanied by the rehabilitation manager of the responsible accident insurance institution.
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Requirements
The treatment goal (preservation of earning capacity or avoidance of the need for care) cannot be achieved without medical rehabilitation.
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Documents
Please contact your local accident insurance institution for this purpose.
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Fees
None
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Process
An insured event that leads to an incapacity for work of more than three calendar days must be reported by the company to the responsible employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
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Duration
Please contact your local accident insurance institution for this purpose.
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Deadline
Please contact your local accident insurance institution for this purpose.
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Responsible authority
Responsibility lies with the accident insurance institutions.
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Legal basis
§§ 26, 27 et seq. Seventh Book of the Social Code (SGB VII)
- § Section 11 (2) of the Fifth Book of the German Social Code (SGB V)
- § Section 40 (1) and (2) of the Fifth Book of the German Social Code (SGB V)
- § Section 41 (1) of the Fifth Book of the German Social Code (SGB V)
- Section 26 (1) No. 2 of the Ninth Book of the Social Code (SGB IX)
- Section 11 (2) of the Fifth Book of the Social Code (SGB V)
- Section 40 (1) and (2) of the Fifth Book of the Social Code (SGB V)
- Section 41 (1) of the Fifth Book of the Social Code (SGB V)
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More information
The statutory accident insurance is a branch of German social insurance. The employer is obliged by law to insure employees against accidents at the workplace, on the way to and from the workplace and against occupational diseases.
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Approved
Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Equality
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Approved date
30.10.2020