Travel costs

Safe transport in any case

We will cover the travel costs for you by medically necessary means of transport (less the legally stipulated co-payment)

Learn more about the co-payment

The following trips can be taken over

  • Rescue trips to the hospital,
  • Transportations with the ambulance

Trips that are necessary because you are

  • are treated as full or partial inpatients in the hospital,
  • give birth in the hospital,
  • participate in an inpatient preventive cure or rehabilitation measure or
  • go to an outpatient surgery that avoids an inpatient stay.

Trips for outpatient treatment because you are

  • have to travel for dialysis treatment or oncological chemotherapy or radiation therapy,
  • you have a severely disabled person's ID card with the symbol "BI", "aG" or "H",
  • have care degree 4 or 5,
  • have care degree 3 and are permanently restricted in their mobility as confirmed by a doctor.

Please remember to pre-approve

Please remember to pre-approve

Please send us the ordinance well in advance of the planned trip so that we can approve it.
Preauthorization is not required for the following trips, as they are authorization-free trips:

- Trips to full/partial inpatient hospital treatment,
- Trips to pre/post inpatient treatment,
- Trips to outpatient treatment by taxi/hire car with characteristic signs
"aG", "BI", "H", care degree 3 with permanent mobility impairment,
care degree 4 or 5 and
- Trips to inpatient hospices.
 

We cannot cover the travel costs if

  • it is a return transport from abroad.
  • the requirements for trips for outpatient treatment are not met.
  • the prescription has not been approved by us before the trip.
  • there is no compelling medical reason for the trip, such as trips to coordinate appointments, request medical reports, or pick up prescriptions.
  • the costs of the chosen medical treatment are not covered.

Published on: 08.03.2022 - Last modified on: 08.02.2023

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