• What does the GdB bring for those affected by lipedema?

    First of all: This article deals with small excerpts from the GdB. Questions about the application, what do I do if “too little GdB” comes out, are the subject of a separate article. What does GdB mean? This is short for degree of disability. With special needs? Not me, some might think. Especially since the choice of words “disability” has meanwhile been seen by those affected anyway

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  • BSG rulings of April 24.04.2018, XNUMX as a strengthening of patients' rights?

    First of all: I do not represent the legal opinion of the Federal Social Court, I am only trying to make it understandable here in this blog. Potential is not the same as potential With two rulings from April 24.04.2018th, XNUMX, the Federal Social Court ruled on the compatibility of inpatient liposuction for lipedema with the quality requirement according to the Social Security Code V (SGB V), which is used by statutory health insurers to grant benefits

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  • Fictitious approval required?

    Everyone who has to deal with the legal facets of our disease sooner or later comes across the concept of approval fiction. The hot topic of approval fiction Hardly any legal construction has heated people up as much in recent years as the approval fiction. For everyone who doesn't know what to do with this term or doesn't know much (for the professionals

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