[Evaluation of the degree of disability for the privately insured patient (author's transl)].

There are marked differences between the public health system and the private insurance system. This paper shows how to evaluate the degree of permanent disability according to "The General Rules for Private Insurances (AUVB 1965)". At the beginning the evaluation of the degree of permanent disability after the visus naturalis or the visus corrected and at unilateral and bilateral aphakia will be discussed. The paper gives detailed information on the degree of disability for: one injured eye, one injured eye with preexisting ocular lesion, bilateral injury, one injured eye with preexisting lesion of the other eye, one injured eye with preexisting ocular lesions of both eyes, bilateral injury with preexisting lesions of both eyes. For bilateral lesions, the degree of disability is calculated as a function of the reduction in activity by the AUVB 1965; this is given in one table. The rules applying to Austria are compared to those valid in the Federal Republic of Germany (AUB). It is very important to understand these methods of calculation, if one wants to secure an objective ophthalmological evaluation of the degree of disability for the privately insured patient.