The pinnacle of the Nationwide Affiliation of Statutory Well being Insurance coverage Physicians (KBV), Andreas Gassen, has the Federal Well being Minister’s draft legislation Nina Warken (CDU) proposed partial sick depart rejected. The KBV considers this to be “an absurd strategy,” stated Gassen Rhenish Submit. The minister plans that sooner or later medical doctors will have the ability to decide that insured individuals are partially unable to work for 25, 50 or 75 % of their common weekly working hours.

“Everybody talks about de-bureaucratization, this regulation could be the precise reverse,” stated Gassen. For partial sick depart, medical doctors must put together a type of report and make clear many particulars of the employment relationship. This is able to require exact data of the office and dealing circumstances.

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