Prevention & Rehabilitation

Talk to your family doctor about the topic of the treatment! Every legally insured person has - if the medical requirements are met - Right to a cure. This can be reapplied for every three years (outpatient) and every four years (inpatient). 

Every family doctor knows the medical history of his patients very well and can assess which treatments suit each individual. The doctor lays with you together determine what goals the treatment has and what focus in the treatment is set. The spa doctor on site lays with you a suitable treatment plan firmly. 

Together with the family doctor, it was determined that a spa treatment would make sense and that all local treatment options had been exhausted. What now?

• The application help below supports you and your family doctor in the formally correct application for a spa treatment and thus reduces the risk of the application being rejected. You can also specify your preferred spa resort. You can read here what makes the moor in the nature park special and why it is a good idea to spend your spa treatment in Bad Bayersoien or Bad Kohlgrub: Our Moor

In the next step, you submit your treatment application to your responsible insurance provider. At precautionary measures again outpatient and inpatient preventative treatment pays the statutory health insurance. 

rehabilitation measures also pays for pensioners, children, housewives and students Statutory health insurance. In the case of employees or employees, it pays German pension insurance. 

The health insurance company checks the completeness of the documents. The Medical service of the health insurance (MDK) checks the information in the application and decides about the medical necessity of the measure.

Was the treatment application rejected? This can happen if, for example, not all treatment options at your place of residence have been exhausted or waiting periods have not been met. 

There is the option of submitting a written objection together with your family doctor. You usually have a month to do this. Explain why the treatment is urgent in your case! Please ask your doctor to comment again.

Now nothing stands in the way of your treatment! At You can take outpatient preventive treatments a recognized health resort choose freely. For inpatient preventative treatments or rehabilitation, your health insurance company will recommend a contract facility. If you have selected a desired facility, the health insurance company will check this and, if necessary, approve the facility as requested.

How about an outpatient treatment with Bad Kohlgrub or Bad Bayersoien? With bathrooms in Mountain pine raised bog and the combination of treatment and accommodation are you with one? our health experts in good hands. They will be there to help and advise you.

The outpatient preventative treatment aims to prevent illnesses. The treatment takes place in one of the state-recognized spas such as Bad Kohlgrub or Bad Bayersoien. The health insurance company covers outpatient preventive treatments 90 percent of the cost of the remedy and all costs for the doctor. Depending on the case, it may be necessary to take vacation for the duration of the outpatient treatment.

With this form of treatment you pay for your accommodation, meals and the remaining 10 percent of the treatment costs yourself. Many statutory health insurance companies grant one Subsidy of up to €16 per day. This is usually granted after the treatment has been completed. It's best to find out more about this from your health insurance company in advance!

If the outpatient preventive treatment is not sufficient for healing success, the health insurance company can cover an inpatient preventative treatment. The aim is to cure or alleviate health problems. This can prevent foreseeable illnesses.

With this type of spa, the health insurance company covers the doctor's costs, the costs of medical treatments and meals. The duration of an inpatient preventative treatment is 3 weeks. You do not need to apply for vacation for this period.

The personal contribution as a spa patient is €10,00 per day.

The prevention stay prevents illnesses. There are various prevention goals that can be funded by health insurance companies. In small groups, you will learn new exercises and processes that can be incorporated into everyday life. This supports a long-term and healthy change in lifestyle

Topics include relaxation, exercise and nutrition. Health insurance companies pay out a flat rate after the trip. Talk to your health insurance company before your trip and refer them to the prevention subsidy according to §20 SGB V! You will then receive a certificate of participation, which must be submitted for reimbursement.

Soothing mud baths in one of our spas provide peace and relaxation. You can also enjoy mud baths without first applying for an outpatient preventive treatment.

Since July 01.07.2001, XNUMX, the catalog of remedies under heat therapy includes WT full peloid baths, WT partial peloid baths and WT peloid packs (= full or partial mud baths and mud packs). as 'complementary remedies' listed and can only be used in conjunction with a 'priority remedies such as classic massage therapy (KMT) or physiotherapy (KG) be prescribed by your family doctor or specialist.
The local spa doctors cannot issue prescriptions.

The health insurance company covers the costs for the mountain pine and raised moor baths. You just pay yourself a personal contribution per recipe. The prescription will be redeemed at one of our health experts in the Ammergau Alps Nature Park.

Of course, self-payers can also book the flat rates from our health experts.

In inpatient rehabilitation, patients are housed in a rehabilitation facility. Meals and overnight accommodation are also included here. Inpatient rehabilitation is recommended if a patient wants or needs to completely break away from everyday life.

With outpatient rehabilitation, you stay at home and receive treatment in an approved facility near your home.