Self -treatment instead of free service with the ambulance: given the empty cash register, new rules of the Austrian health insurance (ÖGK) of July 1 apply. Tyrolean doctors and hospitals have now also received the details.
Grandma has to go to the therapy for dialysis three times a week, the child that lies after a sports injury – nowadays the ÖGK informed which transport services are free and in which cases deductible deductible deducts apply.
In the current letter to the Tyrol clinics, the “Kroon”, the ÖGK talks about “social acceptable cost shares”. “These measures are necessary to continue to provide high quality care,” writes Thomas Lechner, who leads the responsible department of the ÖGK.
To pay the prescription costs or double prescription allowance
For disease transport with taxi or travel service, a personal contribution of 7.55 euros (amount of the recipe costs) per driving route applies.
For patient transports with different rescue organizations, 15.10 euros (amount of double recipe costs) must be shot. In many cases, the ÖGK continues to refer to cost distribution:
- Transport to a dialysis treatment, chemotherapy or radiotherapy
- Transport in connection with a first aid measure (time critical transports, accidents, rescue and emergency transport transport)
- 15 years old not yet completed
- Social protection in accordance with the directive for exemption from the recipe costs
The background is the austerity measures that were decided by the general meeting of the ÖGK at the end of April. This is to reduce the minus of around 900 million euros to around 250 million euros. For example, the package also includes permitted obligations for MRI investigations or physiotherapy.
“Transport only after careful consideration”
Back to the transport guidelines: in writing to the Tyrol clinics, Pushing is urged to restrict treatment: “Given the risen figures in the transport area, we ask you to pay special attention to the health status of the patient when exhibiting. A condition is a disability to walk.
Walking involvement is precisely defined
Anyone who cannot use due to a disease or disability with the support of a corresponding person cannot use public transport. Examples of a medical justification of hiking -is called: wheelchair users, poor physical condition with weakness, dizziness, tendency to fall, etc., plaster restriction of the required leg, medically required leg lighting (eg for bone marking edema), strong stress pain after the organic tribes, for example). Everywhere there is now (he) to …
Source: Krone
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