Question 46 · LEK · Issuing medical certificates
The information in the medical ruling on temporary incapacity to work owing to disease, stay in the hospital or another treatment facility working on stationary or round-the-clock basis and stating the circumstances influencing the right to sickness benefit and its amount is given in the form of letter codes. B code means incapacity to work:
- A. during pregnancy.
- B. which arose after the break of no more than 60 days and its cause is the same as before the break.
- C. because of alcohol abuse.
- D. because of tuberculosis.
- E. because of stroke.
Hint
Recall which circumstance on a sick-leave certificate entitles the patient to sickness benefit at 100%.
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