Reimbursement for Remedies and Aids

Consulting to get your Remedies, Medical Aids or assistive Devices Reimbursement listed in Germany via Hilfsmittelverzeichnis

sananet consulting agency will be happy to assist you with the listing of your medical products and inclusion in the health insurance schemes “Medical Aids Directory” (German Hilfsmittelverzeichnis)  and with changes to their characteristics.

We have already been able to assist many medical device companies and help them with the compilation of documents and clarification of the processes, publications in the directory and compliance with deadlines.

The list of aids is drawn up and continually updated by the GKV (National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds).

There is a wide range of medical aids and assistive devices. It includes visual aids, hearing aids, prostheses, orthopedic and other aids ranging from incontinence aids to compression stockings and wheelchairs. Medical aids can also be technical products that are used to administer drugs or other therapeutic agents as e.g. syringes, inhalation devices or application aids.

The medical products and therapeutic appliances that are available in the “Hilfsmittelverzeichns” are allocated to various product groups according to their fields of deployment.

Products are included in the list of aids at the request of the manufacturers (or of third parties empowered by them, like e.g. sananet consulting) if they have specific characteristics and meet certain quality criteria.

How is sananet Consulting Process to get your Medical Aids listed in Hilfsmittelverzeichnis?

Normally sananet is starting projects to get medical aids listed in the list of medical aids with a general analysis how similar products are reimbursed today and which is the best way to get cost coverage for your medical product. Here the main question will be whether you want to go the easier and safer way of using an existing category (if that exists) with likely lower price level or try to create a new category which might better suit the USP of your remedy, medical aid or assistive device.

The product subgroups are differentiated into product types whose assigned medical products each have fundamentally comparable design characteristics and the same indications or areas of application or the same intended purpose and mode of action. So you are not absolutely flexible in which category your medical aid shall be listed. Product types contain general descriptions of the products they cover and product type-specific indications. A good hint always is the intended use in your CE application.

Once the subgroup for your medical aid is defined, the real application process can start.

You can check whether the Therapeutic Goods and Aids Catalog is relevant for your medical device using the following list – or simply give us a call. In principal the list is only available in German so sananet translated it for your convenience.