In the future, health insurance companies should no longer pay for homeopathic services. Warken emphasized on Tuesday that health insurance funds must have a demonstrable benefit for patients. However, homeopathic remedies have not been proven to have an effect beyond the placebo effect.
Even now, homeopathy is not a standard service. However, many health insurance companies offer them as an additional service with which they want to attract new customers. This would no longer be possible in the future.
In the future, health insurance companies will no longer pay for skin cancer screenings. So far, all insured people over the age of 35 can have themselves checked for skin cancer every two years. There does not have to be a specific suspicion of illness. However, Ferdinand Gerlach, chairman of the Health Finance Commission, is critical of the unnecessary skin cancer examinations. There is no evidence that patients who take part in such screening live longer. In the future, this should no longer be paid for by the health insurance companies.
