Palliativversorgung (spezialisiert ambulant) für Krankenversicherte finanzieren

Insured persons are entitled to specialised outpatient palliative care (SAPV) in the home or family sector.

As a legally insured person, you are entitled to specialized outpatient palliative care (SAPV). The service includes medical and nursing services including their coordination - in particular for pain therapy and symptom control. The aim is to provide care in the familiar environment of the home or family area. These include, for example, integration assistance for people with disabilities, child and youth welfare and care facilities. The special needs of children and young people must be taken into account.

The SAPV is a team effort in which different professional groups work together: doctors, nurses and cooperation partners.

Included are - yes according to individual needs

• consultation
• coordination of care,
• supporting partial supply or
• complete supply

If you have been admitted to an inpatient hospice, you will receive the medical care required within the framework of the SAPV as a partial service.

• Medical prescription

• an incurable, progressive and far advanced disease.
• life expectancy is limited and a particularly complex supply is required.
• The service must be prescribed by a contract doctor or a hospital doctor.

There is no additional payment to be made.

• Insured persons are entitled to specialised outpatient palliative care
  • with an incurable, progressive and advanced disease
  • with a limited life expectancy at the same time
  • who require a particularly complex supply
• Service is to be prescribed by contract doctor or hospital doctor.
• specialized outpatient palliative care includes medical and nursing services including their coordination, in particular for pain therapy and symptom control
• Care of the insured in the familiar environment of the home or family area should be made possible (e.B. institutions of integration assistance for disabled people and children and youth welfare, care facilities)
• Entitlement to the partial benefit of the required medical care for insured persons in inpatient hospices
• the special needs of children must be taken into account.
• the details of the ordinance, the entitlement to benefits and the cooperation of the parties involved have been determined by the Federal Joint Committee in its guideline on the regulation of specialized outpatient palliative care
• on the basis of a framework agreement at the federal level, the health insurance companies at the state level conclude contracts with SAPV teams