Medical aids and appliances

Medical devices to meet your daily needs

There are a number of medical aids to help you meet your daily needs. The list of possible equipment can include wheelchairs, prostheses, hearing aids, walking aids or orthopaedic insoles. Basic insurance coverage can be combined with that of supplemental health insurance in order to reduce the rental or purchase costs of this kind of equipment, providing you have a medical prescription.

Check out the terms and conditions of coverage for the rental or purchase of a medical aid:

Artificial feeding

When feeding through the mouth is no longer possible, alternative means are required, whether to feed micro nutrients intravenously or to provide food through a feeding tube. Different solutions are available for both temporary and long-term situations.

Terms and conditions of coverage:

Parenteral feeding at home: covered by the basic insurance
Enteral feeding at home with a tube: covered by the basic insurance
Enteral feeding without a tube (drinkable food) is covered by the basic insurance if:
- the guidelines of the Swiss Society of Clinical Nutrition (SSNC) are followed;
- supplies are secured by home care services approved by the SSNC or by one of the member associations of Groupe Mutuel

List of home care providers and services approved by Groupe Mutuel: