Key legal question
Whether inpatient rehabilitation after 8 March 2010 remained medically necessary and covered by mandatory health insurance.
Extracted holding
Yes. Given the insured’s polymorbidity, unstable condition, and need for intensive rehabilitation and care, continued hospital treatment remained necessary and appropriate.
Extracted reasoning
The Court accepted the lower court’s factual assessment and held that medical rehabilitation can require hospitalization when the intensity of treatment, degree of handicap, care needs, and complications make lighter settings insufficient. The insurer did not show that an alternative facility could concretely have assumed the required care.