Igel services
Synonym(s)
individual health services
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Acronym for "individual health services". These are services that doctors can offer patients with statutory health insurance against self-payment.
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- Services that go beyond the level of sufficient and necessary patient care defined by law and are therefore not reimbursed by the statutory health insurance funds.
- Small cosmetic operations, e.g. the removal of seborrhoeic keratoses or the examination for glaucoma are, for example, IGel services. This category also includes purely private or professionally motivated examinations (e.g. vaccination consultations for trips abroad, fitness examinations for divers or parachutists).
- IGeL lists are not binding. Doctors can declare additional services as IGeL or offer additional services without calling them IGeL.
- Meticulous (written) information of the patient before the service is provided is required.
- Furthermore, there is controversial discussion whether all these services are medically useful.