Travel Vaccinations and Travel Medicine
Many health insurance funds offer advice via hotlines
Travel vaccinations are not included in the mandatory statutory health insurance benefits. Nevertheless, many statutory health insurance funds cover the costs. Travel vaccinations and vaccination advice before traveling abroad are voluntary benefits provided by some statutory health insurance funds.
Many statutory health insurance funds offer vaccination advice for people traveling abroad via a hotline. The sooner insured persons seek advice, the better. Consultations should take place at least six weeks before departure. Often, several vaccinations are necessary to achieve full protection. After all, it can take some time to be fully immunized.
Generally, patients initially pay for the vaccines and the doctor’s fees themselves. The statutory health insurance provider then reimburses the costs. The rules for reimbursement differ between statutory health insurance funds.
TOP 10 statutory health insurance funds for travel medicine benefitsBest health insurances for "Travel medicine benefits"
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The rankings are based on these criteria:
Click on the links for detailed descriptions of each benefit (in German) and a list of the statutory health insurance funds that offer that benefit.
- Tick vaccination
- Malaria prophylaxis
- Cholera travel vaccination
- Yellow fever travel vaccination
- Polio travel vaccination
- Rabies travel vaccination
- Typhoid travel vaccination
- Hepatitis A travel vaccination
- Hepatitis B travel vaccination
- Meningococcal travel vaccination
- Pneumococcal travel vaccination
- Japanese encephalitis travel vaccination
- Dialysis abroad
- Accessibility of statutory health insurance from abroad
A detailed description of our evaluation process can be found here (in German). In the section "Travel vaccinations and travel medicine", you will find a detailed description of the additional benefits provided by health insurance funds on our German-language website "Krankenkassen.de".
Supplementary benefits are subject to change at any time. Check with your statutory health insurance fund before claiming benefits. You can find the statutes of your statutory health insurance in the profiles of the statutory health insurance funds. This link leads to the list of 58 statutory health insurance companies participating in the comparison. A detailed description of our evaluation process can be found here (in German).