Dental treatment not mandatory under basic insurance

ATA/189/1996Corte di giustizia / Camera amministrativa2 apr 1996Dismissed

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The case concerns whether a dental treatment must be covered by mandatory health insurance because an allergy developed after earlier dental treatment. The court held that the intervention remained outside the scope of obligatory benefits. The fact that the allergy was linked to prior dental care did not transform the dental procedure into a compulsory prestation under the basic insurance scheme.

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Art. 12 al. 2 LAMal; mandatory health insurance coverage for dental treatment: a dental intervention is not an obligatory benefit merely because it is medically prompted or follows a disease process. The decisive question is whether the treatment falls within the statutory catalogue of compulsory prestations. A causal link between a prior dental treatment and a subsequent allergy does not, by itself, establish coverage for the later dental intervention.

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Descripteurs

ASSURANCE SOCIALE; AM; AFFECTION DENTAIRE; COUVERTURE; TRAITEMENT DENTAIRE

Normes

LAMAL.12 al.2

Résumé

Une intervention dentaire n'est pas une prestation obligatoire, même si elle est provoquée par une maladie (allergie). En l'espèce, l'allergie est survenue à la suite d'un traitement dentaire.

Parole chiave

social insurancebasic health insurancedental treatmentcoverageallergymandatory benefits

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Questione giuridica chiave

Whether the dental intervention had to be covered as a mandatory benefit under basic health insurance because the allergy was related to medical treatment.

Decisione estratta

The intervention was not an obligatory benefit; even a disease-triggered dental treatment is not covered in this case.

Motivazione estratta

The allergy occurred after dental treatment, but this did not make the dental intervention a mandatory prestation under the basic insurance rules.

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