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If you practise a legally regulated non-physician medical profession on a self-employed or freelance basis, you are obliged to report this to the responsible health authority.

Members of the following healthcare professions must immediately notify the competent health authority of the start and end of self-employed professional practice:

• anesthesia technician
• Dietician
• Occupational therapist
• Midwife
• Healthcare and pediatric nurses
• Health care and nursing assistant
• Alternative practitioner
• Speech therapist
• Massage therapist and medical bath attendant
• Medical-technical assistant for functional diagnostics
• Medical-technical laboratory assistant
• Medical-technical radiology assistant
• Medical technologists for laboratory analysis
• Medical technologists for radiology
• Medical technologists for functional diagnostics
• Medical technologists for veterinary medicine
• Surgical assistant
• Orthoptist
• Nursing specialist
• Pharmaceutical-technical assistant
• Physiotherapist
• Podiatrist, podiatrist, medical chiropodist
• Veterinary medical-technical assistant

At the start of practicing the profession

• the address of the establishment and
• provide proof of authorization to practice the profession or to use the professional title and the existence of appropriate liability insurance.

Any changes to personal data, relocation of the practice, etc., as well as the termination of the activity must also be reported to the public health department immediately
.

• The following documents are required:
  • certificate of authorization to practice the profession or to use the professional title
  • Proof of the existence of adequate liability insurance

• Authorization to practice the profession or to use the professional title
• Planned practice of the profession in the city or district

Display: none; confirmation (e.g. for the health insurance company): subject to a charge

The notification and the required documents must be submitted to the local health authority.

The health authority in whose district the establishment is located is locally responsible.

The authority can issue a confirmation of the notification on request.