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            seatic Insurance Fund) and the Postbeamtenkranken-  If the conditions for participation are met, the physician
            kasse (Insurance Fund of Mail Officers). Service providers   can download the cooperation and billing contract from                                                                                   ADVERTORIAL
            wishing to join the MICADO contracts need to be licensed   this „Internal Area“, complete it in duplicate and send it
            as a specialist in private practice, an MVZ (Medical Care   to MICADO. The countersigned contract will then be re-
            Center), a practice or day clinic, or a hospital. Ideally, the   turned to the physician by mail. Once the contract has
            physician  or  hospital  can  provide  a  surgical,  multidis-   been signed by both parties, the contract partner is pro-
            ciplinary or multisectoral range of care and meet mini-  vided with all the necessary forms for billing as well as
            mum surgical volumes. In addition, the surgeries to be   useful  information  in  the  „Internal  Area“.  Once  a  treat-
            performed must be part of the contractually agreed    ment, for example varicose laser therapy, has been com-
            service catalog with the health insurers.          pleted with everything included, the doctor sends the                         Customize
               Physicians who wish to conclude a contract with MI-  completed billing forms to MICADO, which checks the case
            CADO are automatically provided to the „Internal Area“ af-  and invoices it to the relevant health insurance company.
            ter registration. There they can download a performance   Once the payment has been made by the health insurance                 Optical
            questionnaire,  complete  it  and  send  it  to  the  manage-  company, the case reimbursement (minus the processing
            ment company by mail or fax. This is then checked there.   fee) is forwarded to the physician‘s specified account.               Fibers

                                                                                                                                             for Medical Laser Applications
            * With „management companies“ are meant in this context medical accounting management companies [editor’s note].


               MATTHIAS HEILMANN

                                                                                                                                             Fiber optic components „off the                                    in the UV spectrum.
               CEO MICADO HEALTH CARE GmbH,                                                                                                  shelf“? This all too often signifi es a                             These lasers reliably
                                                                                                                                                                                                                and evenly transmit
                                                                                                                                             wrong approach for medical laser ap-
               Hamburg, Germany                                                                                                              plications. The application areas are                              UV light even in sus-
                                                                                                                                             too diverse and the range of available                             tained use without
               Matthias Heilmann studied business administration                                                                             lasers too large for standardized fi bers                           darkening. Applica-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                tions requiring opti-
                                                                                                                                             to meet all requirements. For optical
               (BWL) at the University of Hamburg and went through                                                                           fi bers and probes as well as perma-                                cal fi ber bundles,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                such as cataract sur-
                                                                                                                                             nently installed components, choosing
               different leading positions in Controlling, Budget Ne-                                                                        customized optical fi bers is recom-                                gery, are supported
               gotiating, and Contract Strategy in administration                                                                            mended in almost every case. These       by end-fused fi ber bundles, which allow for more effi cient coupling
                                                                                                                                             are produced by specialized manufac-
                                                                                                                                                                                      and de-coupling of laser light.
               departments at hospitals, business insurances, and                                                                            turers and tailored precisely to the re-
               health insurance regional offices (Landesverband).                                                                            spective application and laser. Whether   All-optical fi ber bundles and probes manufactured by CeramOptec
                                                                                                                                             an excimer laser is intended to correct
                                                                                                                                                                                      are suitable for applications in both contact and non-contact mode.
               Before he started 2007 at MICADO, he was Head of                                                                              a cornea or a vascular laser is used to   They are tissue-friendly, cause almost no bleeding and enable high-
               Contract and Supply Management Department at                                                                                  remove upsetting spider veins – custom-made fi ber designs always   precision laser guidance in all application settings. In addition to
                                                                                                                                             signify that the appropriate solution is available from the light con-
                                                                                                                                                                                      common probe types, such as spherical or conical end pieces, silver
               DRÄGER & HANSE BKK (company health insurance                                                                                  ductor to the design of the probe’s tip.  halogen fi bers for optimized light transmission in the typical mid-
               fund). Matthias Heilmann has been CEO since 2009                                                                              Presently, for example, many users of medical lasers rely on individ-  infrared range  with
                                                                                                                                                                                                                CO2 lasers are avail-
               at GVN  - GesundheitsVerbund  Nord GmbH  (Health                                                                              ually designed and manufactured optical fi ber solutions from Cer-  able. Necessary safe-
               Federation North).                               © MICADO Health Care GmbH, Hamburg, Germany                                  amOptec. The fi ber optics specialist from Bonn offers high-quality   ty  measures  have
                                                                                                                                             optical fi bers and probes for all types of laser applications under
                                                                                                                                                                                                                always been taken
                                                                                                                                             the MED. OEM label. From preform to fi ber pulling, to the fi nished   into  consideration
                                                                                                                                             probe, all production steps are performed in-house at their facility   in fi ber optics: if the
                                                                                                                                             in Livani / Latvia, which allows for maximum customization. Besides,   guide system of a la-
                                                                                                                                             customers benefi t from more than 30 years of experience in optical   ser has to be suited
                                                                                                                                             fi ber development. Specialized optical fi bers with rectangular core   to frequent changes
                                                                                                                                             geometries, which convert the energetically inhomogeneous Gauss   of direction, safety fi ber designs can be integrated into our optical
                                                                                                                                             beam of conventional medical lasers into homogeneous top-hat   fi bers. Two copper wires are inserted in the fi ber jacket of these
                                                                                                                                             beams and thus ensure uniform irradiation of specifi c body areas   optical fi bers. They can be connected to the electrical circuit of
                                                                                                                                             are available, e.g. for applications in dermatology or phlebology.   the laser system and trigger an automatic circuit break and system
                                                                                                                                             CeramOptec is the fi rst manufacturer to supply solarization-resist-  shutdown in case of a fi ber rupture. This also sets new standards in
                                                                                                                                             ant optical fi bers for excimer lasers in refractive surgery, operating   operator and patient safety.
                                                                                                                                             CeramOptec GmbH - a company of biolitec group
                                                                                                                                             Brühler Straße 30 - D-53121 Bonn / Germany
                                                                                                                                             Holger Bäuerle | Vice Managing Director           www.ceramoptec.com
                                                                                                                                             Tel.: 0179-4738929 - holger.baeuerle@ceramoptec.com





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