There will be changes to the certificate of incapacity for work (AU certificate) in 2021.
What employees should know about the “yellow note” for reporting sickness.
There is an important change to
the
certificate of incapacity for work 2021
.
The “
yellow ticket
” for reporting
incapacity for work
(
AU
) will be abolished.
What employees should already know now.
Frankfurt - The
certificate of
incapacity for work
(AU certificate) has become more and more important again, especially in times of the Corona.
No wonder, because in a pandemic, many leave the safe side from the
doctor
or the
doctor
sick leave - for fear of possible infection Corona *.
Because it can have many faces.
In 2021, there will be
serious changes to the
AU certificate
for
employees
.
Because then it says: “
Yellow glow
” goodbye.
But how will you be on sick leave in the future?
AU certificate: This will change in 2021 for the certificate of incapacity for work
Farewell to the “
yellow note
”. From 2021 onwards, the certificate of
incapacity
for
work
on paper
should be the end of it
. Because the bureaucracy should be streamlined. So far, there was the
doctor
or
health care professional
for employees: inside an
AU bill
in triplicate. A certificate then had to be forwarded to the manager as quickly as possible. The second AU certificate went to the
health insurance company
and the last was intended for the employee's own documents. But this effort should come to
an end in
2021
.
On May 19, 2019, the “Act for Faster Appointments and Better Care” (Appointment Service and Supply Act, TSVG *) came into force.
In it, among other things, a change to the regulation around the
AU certificate was
specified.
From 2021, doctors will then be obliged
to send
the data on
their patients'
incapacity
to
work
directly and digitally to the sick person's health insurance company.
This eliminates the tedious task of sending the
AU certificate
to the health insurance company.
Priorities of the Appointment Service and Supply Act |
|
---|---|
Appointment service |
Faster appointments with doctors and psychotherapists |
Certificate of incapacity for work transmitted digitally between the doctor and the health insurance company |
|
care |
Care at home also through outpatient care services |
Aids: No more tenders and price wars |
|
HIV preventive drug (PrEP) for risk groups as a health insurance benefit |
|
Preservation of egg and sperm cells, for example, for cancer patients: inside as a health insurance benefit |
|
Electronic patient record |
|
Source: bundesgesundheitsministerium.de |
Certificate of incapacity for work (AU certificate): When exactly the change will come into effect in 2021
But when exactly will the change in the
certificate of incapacity for work take
effect in
2021
? A digitization of the yellow
AU certificate was
actually
planned for January 1st. From this point on, it should be compulsory for doctors to send the sick note to the health insurance company. But as the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV) reports, this will hardly be possible. “However, the
technology
required for this
will not be available across the board in good time for all
practices and health insurance companies
. In addition, both sides are heavily burdened by the corona pandemic, "says the KBV website.
Therefore, it was decided with the Federal Ministry of Health and the
health insurance companies
to postpone this change in the AU certificate.
Instead of January, the mandatory
date
will be
postponed
by three quarters to
October 1, 2021
.
+
Out for AU: “Yellow note” will be abolished in 2021 - you need to know that.
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Changes to the AU certificate: does it still have to be handed in to the manager?
You have to its certificate of
incapacity
continue also in 2021 even with the
employer
or the
employer
deliver?
The KBV also commented on this.
Accordingly, the electronic AU (
eAU
) was actually planned to be sent on January 1, 2022.
But nothing will come of it, because this date has also been postponed.
Employees will
probably have to hand in
their
AU certificate
themselves by
July 1, 2022
.
Because here, too, the delay in the technology makes an earlier appointment impossible, according to the KBV on its website.
The planned
changes to the certificate of incapacity for work
in detail:
From October 1, 2021, the AU data will be transmitted electronically to the health insurance companies.
From July 1, 2022, the health insurances will send the AU to employers in electronic form: inside.
Changes to the AU certificate in 2021: off for the "yellow certificate"
Why is it actually called “
yellow glow
”?
This rather colloquial paraphrase for the
certificate
of
incapacity for work
comes
hence the fact that the medical certificates that employees previously received were printed on yellow paper.
Saying goodbye to the printed version of the
AU
then also means saying goodbye to the “yellow note”.
But in order to have to do a little less paperwork, some
employees
probably say
goodbye,
and so
employees
like to
say
goodbye.
(Sophia Lother)
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