This is how sick notification will work from 2023!

The essentials in brief:

  • For those with statutory health insurance, the certificate of incapacity for work will be digital from January 1st, 2023. When you are sick, the doctor's office sends the sick note electronically to the statutory health insurance company.
  • Those with statutory health insurance must report sick to their employers as usual. 
  • If a doctor gives you a sick note, employers retrieve the sick note directly from the health insurance company digitally.
  • Statutory insured patients only receive a paper printout for their records. The sick note is becoming digital.

Further information can be found at the consumer advice center under “ Digital sick note: electronic certificate of incapacity for work ”.

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