Vienna International Airport is currently looking for a doctor who would like to settle in the “Health Center”. The background to this is that the previous general practitioner Peter Tschernigg has opened a new ordination in Gaweinstal and his contract at the airport will expire on December 31, 2021.

At least for the time being, the e-card, as the health insurance card is called in Austria, will be useless again in the Health Center at Vienna-Schwechat Airport. Tschernigg was the only doctor who had a valid health insurance contract. All other doctors are so-called elective doctors. To put it simply, this means that you first have to pay the fee yourself and then submit it to the health insurance company. This usually only pays a part, so that people without additional private insurance almost always have to sit on a kind of “deductible”.

Vienna Airport absolutely wants a health center doctor again and is looking for a successor to Peter Tschernigg. However, this is not that easy, because following the Austrian bureaucracy, various offices, including the Austrian health insurance fund, have a say. Apart from that, it is not that easy to find a general practitioner with a health insurance contract, because these are now rare and can practically choose their community, because there are more vacancies than cash doctors.

Flughafen Wien AG confirmed the search for a new health insurance physician to the Niederösterreichische Nachrichten: “Vienna Airport is trying to offer health insurance services at the location again as soon as possible. Discussions are currently being held with the responsible bodies in this regard ”.