Private practice
Private practices are run by resident doctors , dentists , psychotherapists or physiotherapists who do not have a contract with statutory health insurance insurers (GKV), i.e. no health insurance provider . The services of these practices are therefore only reimbursed by the statutory health insurance companies in exceptional cases (e.g. unavoidable emergencies). Since private doctors, private psychotherapists and private dentists do not have any health insurance contracts, only the doctor-patient relationship, the professional regulations of the medical associations , psychotherapists ' chambers or dentists' associations and in Germany the regulations of the fee schedule for doctors (GOÄ), the fee schedule for psychotherapists (GOP) and . fees for Dentists (GOZ) determining.
Private practices are common in areas with a high density of doctors or psychotherapists, where admission restrictions apply. Until the abolition of the age limit of 68 years for contract doctors , psychotherapists and dentists in 2008, driving was to continue private practice for doctors, dentists and psychotherapists an opportunity to present their activities. One reason for setting up in a private practice is the possibility of more free medical or psychotherapeutic activity that is not bound by the regulations of the statutory health insurance companies.
In 2004, of the 126,000 resident doctors in Germany, around 7500 were purely private doctors, of the roughly 65,000 resident dentists around 500, and of the around 25,000 resident psychotherapists around 2000.
Naturopaths cannot obtain health insurance approval and are therefore always established in private practices.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jens Lubbadeh: There is a shortage of psychologists in Germany, a desperate need for a therapist. Spiegel Online, July 5, 2012, accessed July 8, 2017 .