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Private health insurance
About one-third of the Austrian population pays premiums into a private supplementary insurance policy in addition to their social security contributions. Such insurance products may afford the insured person better accommodation (single rooms, for example) in the hospital, coverage of the costs of treatment by a doctor of choice, payment of daily benefits in cases of illness or the assumption of costs for complementary medical treatment procedures.
The private health insurance premiums are calculated according to actuarial principles and are partly tax-deductible. The number of persons privately health –insured has decreased over the past ten years.
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