Key legal question
Whether the insurer could limit reimbursement for medically ordered Spitex care to nursing-home cost levels.
Extracted holding
The insured remained entitled to reimbursement of the ordered Spitex care in the statutory amount; the insurer could not reduce payment to the nursing-home benchmark.
Extracted reasoning
The lower court was not shown to have violated federal law in finding home care medically somewhat more effective and more appropriate because a move to a home would likely worsen the insured's psychological condition. Given the insured's still largely intact personal and social functioning, the cost ratio did not constitute an excessive imbalance under the economic-efficiency test.