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Nursing care insurance: Burden of co-payments for inpatient care rises to new high – Sectors
The co-payments for nursing home places continue to rise. The personal contribution for accommodation in a nursing home is now an average of 3,123 euros (without subsidy). With the performance supplement introduced in 2022, seniors still had to contribute an average of 2,871 euros per month towards their nursing home place. Around 4.875 million people […]
Care product scam: Insurance companies warn of care fraud
As Business Insider learned from insurance circles, there are apparently always problems with the care product boxes.Getty Images / mihailomilovanovic, ModernNomads, Collage: Business Insider People in need of care are entitled to nursing aids (e.g. disposable gloves and disinfectant gel) up to 40 euros per month. Some companies use this entitlement to provide people in […]
Care product scam: Insurance companies warn of care fraud
As Business Insider learned from insurance circles, there are apparently always problems with the care product boxes.Getty Images / mihailomilovanovic, ModernNomads, Collage: Business Insider People in need of care are entitled to nursing aids (e.g. disposable gloves and disinfectant gel) up to 40 euros per month. Some companies use this entitlement to provide people in […]
The number of nursing cases will increase – and nursing care insurance will become more expensive
Exclusive According to Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, the Medical Service of the Health Insurance Funds is also warning of significantly more people in need of care. The number of applications is rising sharply. The Medical Service of the Health Insurance Funds (MDK) expects a further significant increase in the number of nursing cases in […]
Pension from nursing care insurance: Why it hardly works.
Edeltraut Hütte-Schmitz still remembers how her own everyday life was completely turned upside down when her husband was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). A disease that gradually paralyzes the muscles, making it difficult for patients to move and later also to speak and swallow. The best-known person affected is probably the physicist Stephen Hawking, […]