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Medicines and dressings for persons with statutory accident insurance; submission of receipts
If you require treatment as a result of an accident at work or commuting accident or a recognized occupational disease, your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will cover the costs of medicines and dressings for medical treatment.
Online services
Online services
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Übernahme der Arznei- und Verbandmittelkosten bei Arbeitsunfall oder Berufskrankheit online beantragenYou can submit notifications and applications online via the accident insurance service portal.
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Description
Your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will cover the costs of medicines and dressings if the aim of the treatment can be achieved.
Unlike statutory health insurance, you do not have to pay a co-payment for this.
Requirements
- You have had an accident at work or on the way to work or suffer from a recognized occupational disease.
Required documents
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Required Documents
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Proceedings
If you have incurred your own share of the costs in connection with the treatment, you can claim this back from your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
Submit the receipts to your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
You can report your own share of the costs of medicines and dressings online or by post.
Online service:
- Call up the online service.
- You will be guided through the procedure on the accident insurance service portal.
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You can log in.
- If you would like to receive a reply from your Berufsgenossenschaft or accident insurance fund in the mailbox of your BundID account or My Company Account, you must have an account and authenticate yourself.
- If you would like to receive the reply by post, you can continue without registering.
- Select your responsible employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund or find them using the industry search.
- Upload the required documents.
- Complete the online form and send it off.
- Your notification will be automatically forwarded to your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
- You will receive feedback via the desired channel.
Online service of your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund:
- If you have access to the portal of your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund, you can also submit the notification electronically there if necessary.
Message by post:
- Send an informal letter to your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
- Make sure you provide the required information and enclose the necessary documents.
Fees
There are no costs for you.
Deadlines
There is no deadline.
Processing time
None
Legal bases
Appeal
- Appeal
- Detailed information on how to lodge an appeal can be found in the notification from your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
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Status: 10.03.2025
Editorially responsible for prodecure description: Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales
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