The patient or the health insurance company is obliged to pay the doctor or the treating person for the services. The amount of the remuneration is determined by the professional fee schedule. The payment is due as soon as the doctor has provided the service. This condition results from the treatment contract.
For patients with statutory health insurance, the health insurance company will pay for all services from its catalogue of services if the doctor is under contract with a health insurance company. Services that are not listed in the catalogue of services or that are not fully covered by the health insurance fund must be paid for by the patient.
Private patients initially pay the full cost of the service themselves, after which private health insurance reimburses the costs. For civil servants, the aid office will cover the costs.
Doctors and dentists are bound by their professional fee schedule. Analogue services are services that are not defined in the fee schedule.
Other points of the treatment contract are
- Contractual Forms
- Treatment obligation of the doctor
- Duty to inform the doctor
- Doctor’s duty of documentation
- Confidentiality of the doctor
- Patient’s obligation to cooperate
If there are complications with the remuneration, it goes without saying that we are there for our clients in all questions concerning billing or debt collection.