Overview
- Hospitals, contracted practices and medical care centers can offer anonymous evidence collection as a statutory health service beginning Nov. 1.
- Statutory health insurers will reimburse the service anonymously, addressing cost and privacy concerns.
- Participating facilities can order examination materials from November, with the Health Ministry paying for the kits.
- Providers must register with their regional legal medicine institute—LMU Munich for Oberbayern, Niederbayern, Oberpfalz and Schwaben, and the University of Würzburg for Unter-, Mittel- and Oberfranken.
- Health Minister Judith Gerlach called for broad participation to ensure local access across Bavaria; until now, the service existed only at the LMU Munich and Würzburg institutes.