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OAMal/KVV
The ordinance implementing the health insurance law.
Obligation to contract
The obligation incumbent on health insurers to reimburse all health care providers authorised to practice under the LAMal/KVG.
OFSP - FOPH
Abbreviation of "Federal Office of Public Health" (Office fédéral de la santé publique). The latter is responsible for the application of LAMal/KVG and its ordinances, as well as for the financial supervision of all recognised health insurers in Switzerland.
OPAS/KLV
Ordinance on Healthcare Insurance Benefits. Also known as «catalogue of benefits», this ordinance defines the medical benefits covered or not by the basic health insurance.
OSAMal/KVAV
Ordinance on the Supervision of Insurance Undertakings.
Osteopathy
Spinal, visceral and joint manipulations taking into account the entire human body, on a physical, mental and energy level.
Outpatient treatment
The Ordinance on the calculation of costs and the classification of benefits by hospitals and medico-social establishments within the health insurance (OCP/VKL) specifies, in Article 5: Are deemed to be outpatient treatments within the meaning of Art. 49, para. 5 of the Act, treatments which are not presumed to be hospital or semi-hospital treatments.
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