Health insurance check
The health insurance check was the forerunner of the e-card in Austria . The health insurance check was a confirmation that someone was insured with one of the Austrian health insurance companies and was necessary when visiting a doctor if the health insurance company was supposed to cover the costs.
The health insurance check was issued by the employer for an employee or a co-insured relative and was given by the patient when he visited the doctor. With this, the doctor could offset his fee with the respective health insurance company.
For the unemployed, the health insurance check was issued by the AMS , for retirees by the respective pension insurance institution .
The checks could only be cashed at general practitioners who have a contract with the relevant health insurance company. As with the e-card, non-contracted doctors must be paid by the patient himself. With a few exceptions, billing with a health insurance check was also not possible for specialists. This function is still taken over by the referral of the general practitioner today .
The health insurance check was issued for a quarter and had to be submitted to the doctor within 14 days, signed by the patient. Additional services within the quarter were only paid for with the same general practitioner. Only one check was allowed to be issued per person per quarter. To ensure this, the employers kept output lists with the names of the employees and their co-insured relatives.
In 1997, the so-called was Krankenschein fee introduced which has been withheld by the employer in writing a check and be delivered to the insurance company had to. Thus, improper use should be prevented. The only exceptions were civil servants , as well as the group of people who were exempt from the prescription fee, such as emergency aid recipients or the like
The holiday health insurance check, which was valid throughout Austria for a certain period of time, had a special status . No separate fee had to be paid for this.
Another special form was the dental treatment check , which had the same purpose as the health insurance check and was only valid for dental treatment. The only difference was the exhibition mode, as it applied per treatment (even with multiple visits) and not per quarter. Only a change of quarter made a new exhibition necessary. No separate fee was charged.
The health insurance check was the successor to the previously common health insurance certificate . After frauds of invoices with sickness certificates without consideration were repeatedly exposed, the aim was to counteract the health insurance check, in which the patient had to confirm that he was making use of the service. Colloquially, therefore, the health insurance check was still the health insurance certificate .
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- ↑ SICKNESS FEE ONLY FROM 1ST QUARTER 1997 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release by Parliament
