Medical care as part of occupational health care
In addition to statutory preventive occupational health care, the employer can organise general practitioner-level medical care, occupational health-oriented medical care, and other health care services for its employees. Kela provides reimbursement for the costs of general practitioner-level medical care, provided that the employer has an agreement on the provision of these services with the same service provider from which it acquires preventive occupational health care services. The employer and the service provider specify the scope of medical care included in occupational health care in the occupational health care agreement.
Medical care in occupational health care usually includes
- care provided by an occupational health doctor, an occupational health nurse and an occupational physiotherapist
- assessment of an employee’s health or treatment options carried out by an occupational psychologist as part of the identification and treatment of an illness based on a consultation request/needs assessment from an occupational health care professional
- series of physiotherapy sessions with a referral from an occupational health doctor
- specialist consultations for determining work ability or treatment options with the responsibility for treatment remaining with the occupational health doctor
- necessary laboratory and imaging examinations.