Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the claimed dental treatment had to be covered under compulsory health insurance as necessary for treatment of a serious disease under Art. 31 al. 1 let. c LAMal and Art. 19 OPAS.
Extrahierter Entscheid
No. The treatment was not shown to be necessary to make the valve replacement possible or to secure its success; it occurred more than five months after the operation and no sufficient causal link was established.
Extrahierte Begründung
The court held that Art. 19 OPAS covers dental treatment that is required in the framework of the medical treatment and usually before it, so as to avoid infectious foci jeopardizing the therapy. Here, no extraction was performed before the urgent valve replacement, the later dental treatment lacked a medically specific indication, and the delay defeated any finding of a predominantly probable causal link.