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Health & care
This is about your health: health insurance and the e-card, seeing a doctor, care for relatives and help with a disability.
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Get your first e-cardNew to Austria? How you get health insurance and receive your e-card.Find a doctorSeeing a doctor in Vienna for the first time, not an emergency? How to find a practice and prepare the appointment, e-card and records.Sick: report sick leaveIll and unable to work? How to know whom to tell and when.Apply for a disability passHow to apply for a disability pass with the Social Ministry Service and gather the medical reports you need.
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Health & care
- I’m having a baby
- Apply for care allowance
- e-card lost or broken
- Get health insurance yourself
- Insure your child with you
- Start a new job
- Caring for family: stay insured
- Health insurance as a student
- Marginal employment: sort out insurance
- Take care leave
- Get the carer bonus
- Money for replacement care
- Money for a care course
- Take family hospice leave
- Money during family hospice leave
- Accompany your child to rehab
- View your ELGA health records
- Print your e-vaccination record
- View or copy your medical records
- Complain as a patient
- Compensation after treatment harm
- Hardship fund after treatment harm
- Privacy with ELGA
- Get money back for a private doctor
- Get exempted from prescription fees
- Have the prescription fee cap checked
- Get back overpaid prescription fees
- Get the e-card fee refunded
- Advice on care and support
- Advice on disability
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