The Internet search engines below will help you when looking for a doctor, dentist or hospital in Germany. In order to optimise your search, check the characteristics of the respective information services described below.
Search engine of the German Hospital Federation
The search engine of the German Hospital Federation offers various ways of looking for hospitals in German and English. This search engine will help you to find hospitals which can as a matter of principle treat you as if you had statutory health insurance in Germany, and can provide medical treatment in accordance with the procedures provided for the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) or form S2. The search engine allows you to search according to the following criteria: The search engine of the German Hospital Federation – an organisation which represents the interests of hospitals in Germany – offers five search services in German and English to help you find a hospital. You can refine your search according to the following criteria:
- regional search
- search by symptoms and treatment methods
- search by quality of treatment
- search by structure and services
- search by frequently-treated diseases
You can select and combine one or more search options.
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The search engines of the statutory health insurance funds
On the website of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds, you will find an overview of the search engines that are operated by the statutory health insurance funds and their associations. You will find hospitals via these search engines which can also treat you as if you had statutory health insurance in Germany, and can provide medical treatment in accordance with the procedures provided for the EHIC or S2. These search engines generally take as an orientation the hospitals' structured quality reports and allow a search according to the following criteria:
- diagnoses
- operation methods
- quality characteristics
- barrier-free access
- specialist departments
- services offered
- special equipment
- staff qualifications.
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The search engine of the Association of Private Health Insurance
The search engine of the Association of Private Health Insurance will help you to find not only hospitals which can bill to the German health insurance funds, but also completely private hospitals. These private hospitals can only treat you as a person with private health insurance, and not as if you had statutory health insurance in Germany. These private hospitals cannot provide treatment via an EHIC, a Provisional Replacement Certificate, or form E 112 or S2. Please approach the hospital administration in question, or contact us, in order to find out whether the hospital which you have found is purely private, or whether it can also bill to the statutory health insurance funds in Germany.
The search engine allows you to search for hospitals in Germany according to the following search criteria:
- regional search
- search for the name of the hospital
- search by diagnosis and desired treatment.
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More search engines
The link below will help you to find more specialised search engines over and above the engines mentioned above
Specialised search engines
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Search engine of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians
The portal of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians – this organisation represents the interests of registered contract doctors (Kassenärzte) in Germany – enables patients who have statutory health insurance to search for doctors. These doctors also treat patients on a private basis.
This search engine only lists registered contract doctors. The latter can therefore also treat you as if you had statutory health insurance in Germany, and can provide medical treatment in accordance with the procedures provided for the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) or form S2.
The search engines are structured on a regionally-specific basis, and offer various options depending on the region.
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The search engines of the statutory health insurance funds
On the website of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds, you will find an overview of the search engines listing doctors that are operated by the statutory health insurance funds and their associations. The search engines allow regional searches, and you can also search by specialist areas or names.
This search engine only lists registered contract doctors. The latter can therefore also treat you as if you had statutory health insurance in Germany, and can provide medical treatment in accordance with the procedures provided for the EHIC or form S2.
The search engine of the Association of Private Health Insurance
The search engine of the Association of Private Health Insurance will help you to find not only registered contract doctors who can bill to the German health insurance funds, but also registered private physicians. The latter can only treat you as a person with private health insurance, and not as if you had statutory health insurance in Germany. These private physicians cannot provide treatment via an EHIC, a PRC or form E 112 or S2. Please approach the healthcare provider in question, or contact us, in order to find out whether the healthcare provider whom you have found only bills on a private basis, or whether they can also bill to the statutory health insurance funds in Germany.
The search engine allows you to search locally, as well as to search by specialist areas or additional specialisations.
{{/if}}The search engine of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Dentists
The portal of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Dentists – this organisation represents the interests of registered contract dentists (Kassenzahnärzte) in Germany – enables patients who have statutory health insurance to search for dentists.
This search engine only lists registered contract dentists. The latter can therefore also treat you as if you had statutory health insurance in Germany, and can provide medical treatment in accordance with the procedures provided for the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) or form S2.
The search engines are structured on a regionally-specific basis, and offer various options.
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Search engines of the statutory health insurance funds
On the website of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds, you will find an overview of the search engines listing dentists that are operated by the statutory health insurance funds and their associations. The search engines allow regional searches, and you can also search by specialist areas or names. The feature for looking for dentists is integrated into the search engines listing doctors via the “Dentistry (Dentist)” (Zahnmedizin [Zahnarzt]) specialisation search option.
This search engine only lists registered contract dentists. The latter can therefore also treat you as if you had statutory health insurance in Germany, and can provide medical treatment in accordance with the procedures provided for the EHIC or form S2.
The search engine of the Association of Private Health Insurance
The search engine of the Association of Private Health Insurance will help you to find not only registered contract dentists who can bill to the German health insurance funds, but also registered private dentists. The latter can only treat you as a person with private health insurance, and not as if you had statutory health insurance in Germany. These private physicians cannot provide treatment via an EHIC or form S2. Please approach the healthcare provider in question, or contact us, in order to find out whether the healthcare provider whom you have found only bills on a private basis, or whether they can also bill to the statutory health insurance funds in Germany.
The search engine allows you to search locally, as well as to search by specialist areas or additional specialisations.
{{/if}}The search engine of the Federal Association for Rehabilitation (Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft für Rehabilitation - BAR) enables you to search for a facility that is suited to you among more than 1,000 in-patient rehabilitation facilities all over Germany. The search engine allows searches both by treatment spectrum and particular specialisations, as well as by parameters such as staffing or therapeutic and diagnostic procedures.
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If you need dialysis during your stay in Germany due to a chronic illness, you can find suitable dialysis facilities in Germany with the help of the “dialysis information” search engine. You can narrow the search by selecting the appropriate dialysis procedure, and you can search specifically for guest dialysis by clicking on the “Available dialysis facilities” (Dialyseplätze) button.
The website of the Association of German Kidney Centres (Verband Deutsche Nierenzentren (DN) e.V.) also offers a search facility for holiday dialysis:
https://www.dnev.de/patienten/feriendialyse/
We will be glad to help you should you need any assistance with your search.
Children with a weight at birth of less than 1,500 g need intensive, high-quality medical care in hospitals which are specialised in this field. The search engine provided by AQUA-Institut GmbH enables you to obtain an overview of perinatal centres by name, region, distance, treatment routine (case numbers) and/or premature infant survival as a whole, as well as survival where there are no serious diseases. AQUA-Institut GmbH is an institute for applied quality improvement and research in health care.
You can also use the results list from AQUA-Institut GmbH’s search engine to compare the perinatal centres which you have shortlisted. The “Risikoadjustierte Fallzahl“ (risk-adjusted case number) for instance is an indicator of how experienced this centre’s treatment team is when it comes to treating premature infants. A risk-adjusted case number which is higher in comparison to the case number indicates that sicker children were treated in this centre than in other centres. Furthermore, directly comparing the data on “Überleben von Frühgeborenen” (premature infant survival) and “Überleben von Frühgeborenen ohne schwere Erkrankung“ (premature infant survival where there are no serious diseases) will enable you to ascertain how many surviving premature infants with serious diseases were treated in percentage terms in the shortlisted centre in question.
AQUA-Institut GmbH provides further instructive explanations using a case example and detailed statements in the orientation guide for its website (“Leitfaden zur Orientierung auf der Webseite”) and in its guide for interpreting the hospital search (“Leitfaden zur Interpretation der Krankenhaussuche”).
Please also feel free to contact us if you need any further assistance.
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Finding midwives
The list of midwives provided by the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds allows you to search for midwives near you by entering the town, postcode and area. The search engine also allows you to search for specific services offered by midwives. The first name, surname, telephone number and/or e-mail address of the respective midwife are displayed so that you can establish contact.
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Finding birth houses
This search engine will permit you to find an overview of birth houses in Germany that are managed by midwives, broken down by Federal Länder.
Finding midwife-operated delivery rooms
You can follow the link below to an overview of those hospitals in Germany which have both a delivery room headed by physicians and one that is exclusively operated by midwives.
{{/if}}The chemists’ search engine offered by the Federal Association of German Pharmaceutical Organisations (ABDA) offers an overview of all chemists in Germany. It makes it possible to search by city or postcode. At the same time, you will find out which chemists offer an after-hours service.
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You can use the search engine of the physiotherapists’ association Deutscher Verband für Physiotherapie to enter a qualification or postcode to find physiotherapists anywhere in Germany or in a specific area.
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Documents and Links
Planned treatment in GermanyWe will explain to you below what is understood as planned treatment and why it is important to distinguish between planned and unplanned treatment.Unplanned treatment in GermanyWe will explain to you below what is understood by unplanned treatment and why it is important to distinguish between unplanned and planned treatment.Scope of treatmentIf you undergo treatment in Germany within the framework of the Patient Mobility Directive, you can even enjoy more benefits than persons in Germany who have statutory health insurance. There are however some costs which you have to pay yourself.
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