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DEU-1988-L-43202
Breadcrumb
Title_of_text
Social Code - Book V - Statutory Health Insurance
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Germany
Subjects (Classification)
Medical care and sickness benefit
Adopted on (Date of text)
1988-12-20
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Law, Act
Second Region
Original title
Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB) - Fünftes Buch (V) - Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung
Abstract/Citation
Amends the Fifth Book of the Social Code dealing with health care and provides comprehensive regulations governing health insurance and health care. Inter alia, provides regulations concerning health care benefits, administration of health care and insurance programs, and sets forth fines for violations of the Act. S. 1 stipulates that insured persons are partially responsible for their health and should participate actively in preventative medicine and lead "health conscious" lives. Insurance companies shall provide information and access to preventative medicine. Defines which persons are obliged to have insurance. Ss. 44 through 51 provide for cash sickness benefit, including in cases when the illness of a dependent child requires absence from work. Also amends numerous other legislative texts, including the Reich Insurance Ordinance, and the First, Fourth and Tenth Books of the Social Code.
Implementing Text region
Implementing text(s)
2010-02-12 (DEU-2010-R-87020)
Regulation concerning the transfer of power to the Federal Insurance Office in order to enact regulations under the Fifth Book of the Social Code (Social Book V transfer regulation)
Implementing text(s)
2012-03-13 (DEU-2012-R-93404)
Fifth regulation to amend the Ordinance on the modalities of payment, accounting, and bills in the field of social security (BGBI I.S. 487).
Implementing text(s)
2018-11-27 (DEU-2018-R-109085)
Social Security Computation Regulation 2019 (BGBl I 40/2018)
Amending Text region
Amending text(s)
1991-12-20 (DEU-1991-L-28986)
Second Act to amend the fifth book of the Social Code, of 20 December 1991
Amending text(s)
1995-07-30 (DEU-1995-L-41079)
Third Act to amend the Fifth Book of the Social Assistance Code.
Amending text(s)
1995-12-04 (DEU-1995-L-43153)
Fourth Act to amend the Fifth Book of the Social Code.
Amending text(s)
1995-12-18 (DEU-1995-L-43309)
Sixth Act to amend the Fifth Book of the Social Code.
Amending text(s)
1996-08-07 (DEU-1996-L-44881)
Social Code - Book VII - Employment Accident Insurance.
Amending text(s)
1996-11-01 (DEU-1996-L-45613)
Act to relieve contributions to the required health insurance.
Amending text(s)
1996-12-12 (DEU-1996-L-45966)
Act regarding the treatment of single-payment remuneration in accordance with social security legislation.
Amending text(s)
1997-03-24 (DEU-1997-L-46596)
Social Code - Book III - Employment Promotion.
Amending text(s)
1998-06-16 (DEU-1998-L-50151)
Act on the profession of psychological psychotherapist and child and youth psychiatrist, and to amend Book Five of the Social Code and other laws.
Amending text(s)
1999-12-22 (DEU-1999-L-57173)
Act for Legal Unification in the Legal Health Insurance.
Amending text(s)
2006-04-24 (DEU-2006-L-77197)
Act on the encouragement of year-round occupation.
Amending text(s)
2006-07-20 (DEU-2006-L-77200)
Act to further develop the basic services for unemployed.
Amending text(s)
2008-12-21 (DEU-2008-L-86718)
Act on the reinforcement of labour market policy instruments.
Amending text(s)
2010-12-22 (DEU-2010-L-87026)
Act concerning sustainable and socially equitable financing of Social Security (Social Security Financing Act)
Amending text(s)
2013-02-20 (DEU-2013-L-95544)
Act to improve the rights of patients.
Amending text(s)
2014-03-27 (DEU-2014-L-98454)
Fourteenth Act to amend the Fifth Book of Social Code.
Amending text(s)
2014-07-21 (DEU-2014-L-98463)
Act to further improve the financial structure and quality of the statutory health insurance.
Amending text(s)
2014-12-02 (DEU-2014-L-98555)
Act to amend the Freedom of Movement for EU Citizens Act and some other Acts.
Amending text(s)
2014-12-23 (DEU-2014-L-98561)
Act to Improve Compatibility between Family, Care and Work.
Amending text(s)
2015-04-15 (DEU-2015-L-101568)
Fifth Law to amend Social Code - Book IV and other Laws (5. SGB IV-AndG).
Amending text(s)
2015-07-16 (DEU-2015-L-101576)
Act to strengthen supply in statutory health insurance.
Amending text(s)
2015-07-17 (DEU-2015-L-101578)
The Act to strengthen health promotion and prevention (Prevention Act)
Amending text(s)
2015-12-01 (DEU-2015-L-101621)
Act to improve hospice and palliative care.
Amending text(s)
2015-12-21 (DEU-2015-L-101623)
Second Act to strengthen nursing Supply and amending other provisions (Second Care Support Act - PSG II).
Amending text(s)
2016-05-30 (DEU-2016-L-103995)
Act to combat the corruption in healthcare.
Amending text(s)
2016-07-26 (DEU-2016-L-103999)
Ninth Act to amend Social Code Book II - Legal simplification - and temporary suspension of the application for insolvency.
Amending text(s)
2016-11-11 (DEU-2016-L-104016)
Sixth Act to amend the Fourth Book of Social Code and some other Acts
Amending text(s)
2016-12-08 (DEU-2016-L-104021)
Act on the flexibilisation of transition from working life into retirement, and the strengthening of prevention and rehabilitation in working life.
Amending text(s)
2016-12-23 (DEU-2016-L-104027)
Care Strengthening Act.
Amending text(s)
2016-12-23 (DEU-2016-L-104028)
Act to strengthen the Participation and Self-Determination of Persons with Disabilities (Federal Act on Participation).
Amending text(s)
2017-02-21 (DEU-2017-L-106035)
Act to improve the capability to act of self-governing bodies at major organisations in statutory health insurance, as well as to strengthen the supervision over them.
Amending text(s)
2017-04-04 (DEU-2017-L-106038)
Act to improve the supply of therapeutic appliances and remedies.
Amending text(s)
2017-08-17 (DEU-2017-L-106066)
Act to strengthen occupational pensions and to amend other Acts (Occupational Pensions Strengthening Act)
Amending text(s)
2018-11-28 (DEU-2018-L-109084)
Act on service improvement and stabilisation in the statutory pension insurance (BGBl I 40/2018)
Amending text(s)
2018-12-11 (DEU-2018-L-109092)
Act to reduce social security contributions of insured in the statutory health insurance (Insured Relief Act)(BGBl I 45/2018)
Electronic region
Electronic source title
Legislation on-line in German
Author
Bundesrecht - Federal Law
Publisher
Federal Ministry of Justice
Country
Germany
URL
http://www.gesetze.juris.de/
File
DEU43202.pdf (PDF of Book as amended to April 2011)
Serial region
Serial title
Bundesgesetzblatt, Part I (photocopy)
Date
1988-12-29
Number
No. 62
Page range
pp. 2477-2597