To qualify for rehabilitation you need to meet the following criteria.

• A doctor has to confirm that rehabilitation is medically necessary.
• The rehabilitation procedure must be approved by the funding body.

For post-COVID-19 rehabilitation, you must also be free of acute infection. This usually means you have to take a PCR test before starting rehabilitation.

An application for medical rehabilitation is normally made through the family doctor or a specialist who can confirm that it is medically necessary.

After serious illness with COVID-19 and an in-patient stay in hospital, rehabilitation can also be organized by the hospital. It can then follow on directly after the hospital stay.

Further information is available from your health insurer or from Deutsche Rentenversicherung or other bodies that fund procedures to aid social inclusion.

Information and support on all matters relating to inclusion and rehabilitation are also available from local EUTB (independent inclusion advice service) centers.

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