The KRUS sanatorium is a solution for a farmer who is in poor he alth. Read who can go to a sanatorium with KRUS and what benefits are due in connection with such rehabilitation.

Contents:

  1. Sanatorium with KRUS - general rules
  2. Who can go to the sanatorium from KRUS?
  3. How much time does it take to undergo therapeutic rehabilitation with KRUS?
  4. How to get a referral to a sanatorium from KRUS?
  5. Sanatorium with KRUS - fees

A trip tosanatorium from the Agricultural Social Insurance Fund (KRUS)is intended for those farmers who are at risk of losing the ability to work on a farm, but they can also benefit from it that have lost this ability. However, trips to a sanatorium from KRUS look a bit different than with NFZ insurance.

Sanatorium with KRUS - general rules

Rehabilitation stays with KRUS are organized in KRUS Farmers' Rehabilitation Centers (CRR) and in spa centers that have signed relevant agreements with KRUS. This means that a farmer who wants to go to a sanatorium from KRUS has other he alth resorts at his disposal than people using sanatoriums at the National He alth Fund.

Each stay lasts 21 days and you can use it no more than once every 12 months.

However, there are exceptions: farmers who remain on an agricultural pension and are en titled to sickness benefits for temporary incapacity to work longer than 180 days may go to another rehabilitation stay 6 months after the end of the previous one.

Who can go to the sanatorium from KRUS?

A trip to a sanatorium can be applied for by any farmer whose he alth is so annoying that he does not have the strength to work on the farm anymore, and also one whose rehabilitation may enable him to return to work. However, this does not mean that he will be automatically granted a place on a rehabilitation camp - he must meet one of three additional conditions.

First of all - he must be fully insured with KRUS.

The second condition is to be covered by sickness, accident and - upon request - maternity insurance in full for at least 18 months before the date of submitting the application for therapeutic rehabilitation in a sanatorium with KRUS.

The last condition is the right to a periodic agricultural pension due to incapacity for work, but at the same timemaintaining the ability to exist independently.

How much time does it take to undergo therapeutic rehabilitation with KRUS?

The waiting time for a trip to a sanatorium from KRUS is, in standard cases, 12 months from the date of submitting the application. But not always: people who lost their ability to work in an accident that occurred while working on the farm (or the accident caused them to lose such ability) are referred to rehabilitation sooner.

However, each case is considered individually and in medically justified cases it may happen that a person applying for a sanatorium from KRUS will get the opportunity to leave much earlier than before the end of the year.

The individual approach applies not only to the date of departure, but also the duration of the stay in the sanatorium: if there is such a need, already during the stay, the spa doctor may decide that the rehabilitation stay should be extended.

How to get a referral to a sanatorium from KRUS?

To be able to apply for a rehabilitation trip, a referral is required. As in the case of sanatoriums financed by the National He alth Fund, such a referral is issued either by a general practitioner or a specialist doctor who looks after the patient on a daily basis (or specializes in the treatment of a disease that requires a stay in a sanatorium).

The application must be accompanied by the results of all tests required by the facility, and then delivered it in person or by letter to the KRUS facility appropriate for the place of residence.

It is worth remembering that the application is valid for 6 months from the date of issue.

The application will be checked at the KRUS facility and if the KRUS medical certification inspector accepts it, the patient will receive a proposal of a place where he can go for rehabilitation.

Only if he accepts it, will he be issued a referral to a rehabilitation stay, and the KRUS branch will send relevant information about the patient to the selected rehabilitation center.

Sanatorium with KRUS - fees

Rehabilitation stays with KRUS are completely free: the cash desk covers the costs of not only treatments, but also accommodation and meals, and also reimburses travel costs.

The latter are returned upon arrival at the site after the patient submits a written application, in which the tickets or bills for the journey must be presented and any en titlements to reduced fare must be replaced. The reimbursement is paid in cash, usually immediately after presenting the application, and if it is impossible, not later than on the penultimate day of stay in the sanatorium.

It is worth remembering that the amount of the refund is a flat rate and is equal to the price of travel to a given place by the cheapest means of public transport - if there is a train arriving, the patient receives the equivalent of the ticket price in the second class of a passenger train.

It is worth knowing that a stay in a sanatorium financed by KRUS does not exclude the possibility of a farmer taking advantage of spa treatment under the National He alth Fund.

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Geriatrics