Apply for reimbursement of the costs of remedies in the statutory accident insurance
Your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund covers the costs of supplying remedies after an accident at work, commuting accident or in the event of a recognised occupational disease.
Remedies are all medically prescribed services that serve a healing purpose or ensure a healing success. These may only be provided by appropriately trained persons.
These include, for example:
- Massages
- Physiotherapy
- other physical therapies,
- Speech and occupational therapy.
In contrast to statutory health insurance, you do not have to pay your own contribution.
Process flow
Always get a doctor's prescription before using remedies.
If you have made a co-payment, you can submit the co-payment receipt online or by post.
Online service:
- Go to the online service.
- You will be guided through the procedure on the accident insurance service portal.
- You can sign up.
- If you would like to receive the answer from your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund in the mailbox of your BundID account or My Company Account, you must have an account and authenticate yourself.
- If you would like to receive the answer by post, you can also continue without registering.
- Select your local employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance company or use the industry search to find out what you are looking for.
- Upload the required documents.
- Fill out the online form and submit it.
- Your report will be automatically forwarded to your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
- You will receive feedback on the desired path.
Online service of your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund:
- If you have access to the portal of your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund, you can also submit the report electronically there if necessary.
Message by post:
- Contact your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund with an informal letter.
- Pay attention to the required information and enclose the necessary documents.
Requirements
- You have had a recognized accident at work or on the way to work.
- You suffer from a recognized occupational disease.
Which documents are required?
- Receipts for costs already paid (e.g. the co-payment for physiotherapy)
What are the fees?
Fee: free of chargeThere are no costs.
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
There is no deadline.
Applications / forms
Forms available: No
Written form required: No
Informal application possible: Yes
Personal appearance required: No
Appeal
- Contradiction
- Detailed information on how to file an objection can be found in the notification of your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
Technically approved by
Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS)
Professionally released on
01.12.2022
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
