Hallo zusammen, ich brauche Rat, wie ich in meiner Situation vorgehen soll.
Ich habe diese Rechnung von meinem Ex-Zahnarzt hier in Deutschland bekommen. Das war mein erster Zahnarzt hier und ich bin dorthin gegangen, weil es ein Notfall war. Ich sagte ihr, dass ich international durch die EHIC-Karte versichert bin, da mein Herkunftsland in der EU liegt. Sie hat mir versprochen, dass alle Kosten übernommen werden und ich nichts bezahlen muss. Zwei Monate später brauchte ich eine Wurzelkanalbehandlung, weil sie meine Karies nicht wirklich gereinigt, sondern nur eine Füllung darauf gelegt hatte. Sie hat das Gleiche mit meinem anderen Zahn gemacht und ich habe alles auf einem Röntgenbild. Ihre Arbeit pro Zahn betrug etwa 15 Minuten, was schon verdächtig war, aber ich hatte damals keine andere Wahl.
Plötzlich erhielt ich heute eine Rechnung, die besagte, dass ich bis Weihnachten 630 € für ihre Arbeit bezahlen muss. WTF! Ich brauche dringend rechtlichen Rat und wie ich weiter vorgehen kann. Werde ich betrogen?? Ich bin gerade auf der Suche nach einem Anwalt für ein erstes Beratungsgespräch. Ich möchte die Rechnung stornieren.
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Von DanickBG
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Doctors are connected to German health insurances, they are not directly connected to the hundreds of insurances outside of Germany. You’ll need to contact your own insurance at home and give them the bill. Normally you need to pay the bill first and they’ll reimburse you.
Well I think the dentist made a typo, or atleast I hope so. Because factor 35 seems unreasonable high. I guess it should have been 3.5.
Edit : and Yeah I think you were handled like some1 with private insurance or “selbstzahler”. So ask for a corrected bill and send this to your insurance.
What is going on with the fifteen posts a day „am I being scammed?“. I’ve been living in Germany my entire live and haven’t been scammed ever. Why is so many people first thought that someone is trying to scam them?
As others said, check with your insurance.
Did you show your physical EHIC card to them? If not, you need to send them an “Ersatzbescheinigung”. What country are you insured in?
3.7.24 has a typo. There’s position 2330 two times. However it doesn’t make sense to do the same treatment on the same tooth twice in the same sitting.
If it was an emergency I’m wondering why you went there 4 times for a different tooth each time. She stated that the fillings were deep and thus needed to put in a medication in hopes of avoiding a root canal treatment. If that treatment was done good or bad isn’t something we can judge from afar.
They made a mistake with the Factor, 35.0 does not seem reasonable at all, contact them to send corrected version.
Generally (not a dentist, just a physician), the thing works like this: you come to us and present your EHIC. We check which of the procedures are covered by the EU treaties and which by our own emergent measures catalog, and then inform you.
After the procedure, we send (electronically) a demand to the insurance you’re with. That insurance can either fully cover (all good), partially cover (we’ll bill you for the rest and let you deal with your insurer as to the why), or deny (again, we’ll bill you) the coverage. Finally, if your insurance does not respond at all, which I’ve only ever seen from EHIC partners in Romania, Bulgaria, and Slowenia, we also bill you, and let you deal with your insurer.
There’s another snag to this: if you’re getting IGeL services, they can not be claimed via your home insurance, even IF they’d be covered. Meaning, you’ll get a bill either way and have to deal with coverage from home yourself.
Here’s what you do: pay the procedure and send the claim to your home insurance for coverage. If you do not pay, you’ll wind up in collections or worse.
I had treatments in France while having a German EHIC card in the past. The way it worked is that I had to pay everything upfront and then get it back from my insurance in Germany (did never even have to show them my card, as they can’t do nothing with it). So that part is not a scam.
But I do think there is a mistake on the bill, factor 35 shouldn’t exist…
If you suspect that her treatment was wrong, you can go to the counselling of the Zahnärztekammer. If they can’t help, usually the next step is to ask the Krankenkasse for a revision – which would be impossible in your case, as you have no German health insurance. Lawyer would come only after there has been no solution found in these 2 options, and I honestly don’t think is really worth it in your case.