So far, there are no reimbursement options for electrolysis in Belgium.
Are you a trans woman who wants to undergo surgery or treatment at 2pass Clinic, but you do not live in Belgium? Sometimes you can get your treatment fully or partially reimbursed by your health insurance with a European S2 form. However, not every insurance company handles it the same way.
The S2 form, formerly known as E112, was designed by the European Union for healthcare abroad. You can obtain the form from your insurance company if you wish to undergo FFS or another treatment at 2pass Clinic, but only if you do not live in Belgium yourself. Whether or not your insurance will pay for the treatment is not certain. It varies per insurance company.
Contact your insurance to get your own S2 application form and then send it to us. The doctor will make sure you get all the necessary documents.
Whether the insurer will (partially) cover the costs depends on the type of treatment, but also on the company's policy. Some treatments are considered purely cosmetic and are not reimbursed. Other interventions may be considered medically necessary. Ask the insurance company in advance what they normally reimburse and what they do not. This prevents disappointment.
If the insurer agrees to the S2 application, the patient must submit the form to the clinic. The practitioner decides whether the costs are declared directly to the insurer or whether the patient receives the invoice and must pay in advance. In the latter case, the patient can forward the bill to the insurer and request a refund. This must include a medical report from the treating physician.
So far, reimbursements for electrolysis have only been successfully obtained by patients from Germany. You can find more information below.
Even though patients from other countries have had little or no success in getting reimbursed so far, we still recommend that everyone contact their insurance company. Even if the situation seems hopeless, we hope that they will begin to see that the system needs to change if a significant number of trans women continue to contact them with the same type of questions.
At the German Krankenkasse you can only get a 'yes' to an S2 application if the treatment cannot take place in Germany in time. If the German insurer agrees, the patient must forward the S2 document to an insurer in the country where the treatment takes place, i.e. Belgium in the case of 2pass Clinic. The 'ceiling' of the reimbursement depends on what a Belgian patient would receive in a similar situation.
Some of our patients have successfully received reimbursement from their insurance companies.