Questão jurídica principal
Whether the insurer had to cover the costs of the inpatient rehabilitation stay at Klinik X. from 12 to 28 January 2006.
Decisão extraída
No reimbursement was owed because there was no acute need for inpatient rehabilitation and outpatient treatment had not been shown to be insufficient.
Fundamentação extraída
Medical rehabilitation under compulsory health insurance requires that the illness treatment is essentially completed and that the rehabilitation can only be carried out inpatient if spital need is shown. The findings were that the clinic was not an acute hospital, there was no emergency, and neither the treating physician nor the clinic sufficiently explained why outpatient treatment would not suffice.