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VivoSensMedical and health insurance companies renew cooperation

The Leipzig-based company VivoSensMedical and the health insurance companies BIG direkt gesund and HEK - Hanseatische Krankenkasse have renewed their co-operation. The health insurance companies will continue to cover the OvulaRing diagnostics as an additional service for women who are insured with them. This now also includes payment of the previous co-payment. The medical device supports women who wish to have children with cycle diagnostics.

20/10/2023

Good news for women who want to have children: the health insurance companies BIG direkt gesund and HEK Hanseatische Krankenkasse will continue to cover diagnostics with OvulaRing for up to twelve months as an additional service outside of standard care. And the co-payment of 99 euros, which insured persons previously had to pay, will now be covered in full by the health insurance companies. The free service is therefore available to 550,000 insured women and could spare them stressful fertility treatments.

OvulaRing was developed by gynaecologist and reproductive medicine specialist Prof. Henry Alexander. By precisely measuring the core body temperature, the certified medical device creates a cyclofertilogram (CFG) – an exact image of the female cycle. An algorithm uses this to determine the individual CFG score, which the doctor can use to recognise the patient's cycle and fertility health via telemedicine and initiate further treatment. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, over 5,000 women are currently using OvulaRing.

Sebastian Alexander, Managing Director of Leipzig-based VivoSensMedical, is delighted about the renewed cooperation: „The cooperation with both health insurance companies has been running smoothly for years, which is why we were quickly on the same page this time too. We were able to significantly simplify the entire process for doctors and patients. I am particularly pleased that even more women can now fulfil their desire to have children, as the financial burden has been completely removed.

Doris Scharrel, Chairwoman of the Schleswig-Holstein branch of the Professional Association of Womenärzte e.V., welcomed the new contractual conditions. „The digital accompaniment of this modern cycle diagnostics supports the independence of women and their reproductive self-determination.

In future, the enrolment of doctors and insured persons will take place digitally and with the support of experienced care service providers, so-called management companies. These take care of the entire contract management and thus relieve the doctors of administrative tasks. Other health insurance companies can join the selective contract and are welcome to do so.

Founded in 2011, VivoSenseMedical is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the Saxon State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport (SMWA), the State Ministry of Science and the Arts (SMWK) and the City of Leipzig. OvulaRing was supported by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology as part of an EXIST start-up grant.

News from "medtech zwo" from 20 October 2023

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