08/07/2021
Over the past 4 months, C-support has received more than 600 reports of problems with paramedical recovery care. C-support has inventoried these reports and provided advice to the Dutch Healthcare Institute. Partly because of this, the paramedical recovery care scheme has now been extended until 1 August 2022*. The rules have also been adjusted.
Extension and adjustment of the scheme
For people with long-term corona complaints, there has been a temporary arrangement for paramedical recovery care since July 18, 2020. This means that paramedical recovery care, such as physiotherapy and occupational therapy, is reimbursed from the basic insurance. This arrangement initially ran until August 1, 2021. On the advice of C-support, among others, it has now been extended until August 1, 2022.
The rules that apply to paramedical recovery care have been amended:
- You can request a referral for paramedical recovery care up to six months after your acute illness (was four months).
- Paramedical recovery care lasts six months. Sometimes you can get an extension of recovery care. This is possible with a referral from the medical specialist but in many cases now also with a referral from the general practitioner.
- The extension of the recovery care must start within four months after the first period of recovery care. Otherwise the results from the first six months are no longer useful.
- Are you not eligible for the paramedical recovery care scheme? Then you will now receive reimbursement for normal care from the basic package: speech therapy, 10 hours of occupational therapy and 3 hours of advice from a dietician. Do you have additional insurance for physiotherapy, for example? Then you will receive reimbursement from the additional insurance.
Check out the website of the Healthcare Institute of the Netherlands for more information about the paramedical recovery care scheme.
*the recovery scheme has now been extended again until August 2023. See more recent news item.
