For patients who were admitted to an inpatient Rehabilitation Center, there is a special reference in the new EOPYY Regulations. If you are hospitalized as an inpatient for rehabilitation and do not need further inpatient care, you can continue as an outpatient (with the outpatient rehabilitation program), if this is recommended by your attending physician and the scientific director of the inpatient rehabilitation hospital provided there is valid evidence your condition cannot be treated with simple physiotherapy. Based on these regulations, the total time of inpatient and outpatient care in a Rehabilitation Center is set at six (6) months from the start of the inpatient admission. After six months, you can continue your outpatient rehabilitation program in a Rehabilitation Center by decision of the Supreme Health Council (Ανώτατου Υγειονομικού Συμβουλίου) for one year. The total duration of inpatient and outpatient treatments at a Rehabilitation Center cannot exceed two years.

According to the new EOPYY regulation, for patients suffering from chronic neurological diseases who have manifested mixed neurological damage/dysfunction, and patients with chronic musculoskeletal diseases such as:

• Degenerative diseases of the central nervous system, such as extrapyramidal lesions (dystonia, Parkinson’s disease), spinocerebellar ataxia, and central and peripheral motor neuron diseases.
• Hydrocephalus with normal CSF pressure,
• Chronic encephalopathies and encephalitis
• Chronic neuropathies (multiple mononeuropathies or polyneuropathies)
• Muscle diseases such as dystrophies, myopathies, and myotonias
• Neurocutaneous syndromes such as neurofibromatosis, tuberous sclerosis,
• Chronic demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis, chronic inflammatory polyneuropathy,
• Connective tissue diseases, involving the nervous system,
• Genetic diseases involving the nervous system.
• Rheumatoid arthritis and Spondyloarthropathies,
• Limb amputation with prosthesis placement,
• Multiple trauma patients with neurological deficits.

EOPYY will cover the cost of the outpatient rehabilitation program provided they have not previously undergone individual treatment sessions, specifically, physiotherapy/occupational therapy/speech therapy for a period of three months.

If any of these patients, in the course of the disease, show clinical deterioration, according to a detailed report by a treating physician regarding the condition, and a report from the competent supervisory body, which the inability to be treated with simple physiotherapy procedures and a special rehabilitation program is required, can, by submitting an opinion electronically, be referred for an outpatient rehabilitation program a Rehabilitation Center.

In any case, the insured persons make a 15% contribution to each rehabilitation session.

Therapeutic sessions may include physical therapy, occupational therapy, hydrotherapy (water baths, paraffin baths, hot-cold compresses) speech therapy, and psychological support, depending on the patient’s therapeutic needs.

Each rehabilitation program consists of specialized therapy sessions and is tailored to the individual patient, because we believe each patient is unique.

First, a physical examination and report by a physical and rehabilitation specialist or another medical specialist who can advise on the need for rehabilitation treatment, depending on the type of condition (e.g., a pathologist or neurologist for stroke, an orthopedic surgeon for orthopedic conditions, etc.) is required. For EOPYY insured patients, the request for approval of the program entails electronic submission of the report. Your doctor must complete all the required fields for the outpatient rehabilitation program to be authorized. You must then take this electronic report to an EOPYY supervising physician, who will approve it.

After the medical opinion is approved, you come to ANAPLASI and, in consultation with our Social Worker, the days and times of your therapeutic sessions will be determined.