A doctor's prescription is required, which you bring to the first appointment. Children up to the age of 18 are generally exempt from co-payments and the insurer covers all costs. The same applies to adults exempt from co-payments. Patients over 18 contribute a 10% co-payment of the total prescription value plus a €10 prescription fee.

Therapy providers can set their own rates for privately insured patients within the scope of a fee agreement. The validity of the fee agreement does not depend on whether or how you, as a private patient, have a reimbursement claim against an insurer. The level of reimbursement is based on the terms of your personal health insurance contract — if you have chosen a lower monthly premium, costs may not be reimbursed in full. The individual maximum rates set by insurers do not affect the private legal relationship — and therefore the fee agreement — between the speech therapy practice and the private patient. Our treatment fees are currently set at 1.8 times the statutory health insurance rate, well below the maximum 2.3 times rate. The high quality of our therapeutic services — based on years of professional experience, varied additional qualifications and specialisations — makes our fee structure appropriate in our view.