Apply for knee braces with exemption without additional payment
If you are insured with the statutory health insurance, you can apply for an exemption from the co-payment. If you have been prescribed knee braces, you do not have to make any additional payments for these on request.
Knee wraps are prescribed by the doctor if the joint is to be supported. This can be necessary for various reasons. Age processes, a large one-sided stress, for example through sport, or an accident or a disability can be the cause of the need for a knee brace.
Statutory insurance must make an additional payment for knee supports
- If you are an insured person with a statutory health insurance, you usually need one Co-payment Afford. The knee supports are among the remedies and aids that have not been fully reimbursed by health insurance for many years. However, an additional payment is only required if this does not exceed your financial means and if the bandages were prescribed by the doctor as part of a healing plan.
- If you only have a low income, are chronically ill, or have you made many additional payments in the current year, you can apply for an exemption from your health insurance company. In this case, you do not have to make any additional payments for the rest of the year.
You can apply for an exemption from your health insurance company
- If you are not chronically ill, you have to make additional payments of 2 percent of your gross income per year. In the case of a chronic illness, the amount is reduced to 1 percent of gross income. It is important that the chronic illness has to exist for one year in order to be recognized.
- Contact your health insurance company to apply for an exemption. Provide proof of your income and indicate which additional payments you have already made. Only then can the exemption from co-payment be approved.
Physiotherapy can be prescribed for you by the orthopedic surgeon. However, you must ...
In the case of medical aids such as knee supports, you must take into account that these are only used by the Health insurance be accepted if there is a medical indication. If you want to bandage your knee because you are doing a sporting activity or because you feel more comfortable with a bandage, you have to pay for it yourself. The same applies if the bandage has been prescribed by an alternative practitioner or recommended by a physiotherapist. Private health insurance companies may still cover the costs.
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