With years of increasing regulation of the health market, competition law in the health care system is also becoming more and more important. It regulates compliance with the competitive conditions that apply equally to service providers and their professional groups, in particular through competition law, i.e.
Tenders
Supply contracts
List of aids
Therapeutic appliances within the meaning of § 33 SGB V are all means required by the insured person to ensure the success of a medical treatment, to prevent an impending disability or to accommodate a disability. This includes hearing aids, orthopaedic insoles, electro stimulation devices, prostheses as well as software. As a rule, therapeutic appliances are reimbursed by the statutory health insurance funds based on a medical prescription.