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The health insurance covers the costs for early detection examinations and tests necessary during pregnancy.

Statutory prenatal care includes a detailed consultation in which your doctor asks you about personal and family illnesses, your current condition and your life situation. As part of the physical examination, weight and blood pressure are also measured and a blood and urine sample is taken.

Following the initial examination, the doctor issues the maternity passport. In this, all data that are important for pregnancy and childbirth are noted.

After the initial examination, further checks initially take place at intervals of four weeks. In the last two months of pregnancy, the gap is shortened to about two weeks. The doctor checks the child's heart sounds and your weight at each appointment. In addition, the hemoglobin content of your blood is monitored. In the course of pregnancy, tests for infection with hepatitis B (HBs antigen) and screening for gestational diabetes (glucose tolerance test) also follow.

Other services include an ultrasound examination in the first, second and third trimesters of pregnancy and screening for gestational diabetes.

• Electronic health card,
• Maternity passport (issued at the initial examination)

None. Services that go beyond sufficient, appropriate and economical care are not paid for by the health insurance company.

You can appeal against the decision of the health insurance company. If the objection is not remedied, you can file a complaint with the competent social court.

Statutory prenatal care includes:

• Detailed initial examination (consultation, physical examination including weight, blood pressure, blood and urine sample)
• following the initial examination, the doctor issues the maternity passport. In this, all examination results, relevant diseases, hospitalizations, date of birth and course and finally also the first information about the newborn are recorded.
• the other preventive appointments take place every four weeks in the first seven months of pregnancy, then two weeks thereafter
• jeweils an ultrasound examination in the first, second and third trimester of pregnancy
• From the sixth month of pregnancy, screening for gestational diabetes

Contact your health insurance company.