Individual health service
IGEL services are examinations, the costs of which are not covered by statutory health insurance. Especially in prenatal diagnostics, but also in basic maternity care and gynecology, the conclusion what must be paid is not necessary, the health insurance companies already know what is important, obsolete. Unfortunately, statutory health insurance companies are shrinking more and more sevices in their catalog for cost reasons. If vaginal ultrasound is only paid for when ovarian or uterine cancer is suspected, then the patient in question already has symptoms or a tactile finding that indicate to the doctor that such an illness is present. One can certainly understand that it can sometimes be too late, in any case later than if one carries out this examination prophylactically and detects a malignant process in the early stages. You an get information about possible IGEL services and their costs in our practice.
The benefits, for example, of a first trimester screening are clearly demonstrated. What you can read clearly on this homepage and under the many links to professional associations. We will never again be able to detect a Down Syndrome sonographically a s reliably (95-98%) during pregnancy as in this early examination. In the second trimester, the initial markers that indicate this chromosome disorder and with which we calculate the probability are mostly gone. What many do not know, we now only discover about 70% of the children affected by abnormalities. The earliest possible diagnosis is essential.
You all have a mobile phone, many of you have a laptop, sometimes go shopping, eat a pizza… That way 190 Euros are quickly spent. This is roughly the cost of this very early ultrasonic IGEL service. The pizza is forgotten, the mobile phone replaced, the laptop broken at some point…
But you will soon become mother or father for a lifetime! Take your life seriously!