Electronic sick leave in 2021 and 2021

Electronic sick leave certificates are documents that were introduced to simplify paperwork and communication between the medical institution, the employer and the Social Insurance Fund. Changes in the rules for document preparation are coming in the near future.

Paper and electronic sheets have the same legal force, as enshrined in Federal Law No. 86-FZ dated May 1, 2017. But it is written out only in one format (Part 2 of Article 1 and Part 5 of Article 13 of the Federal Law of December 29, 2006 No. 255-FZ, paragraph 1 of Article 15 of the Federal Law of July 24, 1998 No. 125-FZ). That is, an ill employee does not have the right to receive digital and paper versions at the same time.

What does electronic sick leave mean for an employer?

Sick leave is the basis for the appointment and payment of benefits for temporary disability or pregnancy and childbirth (Part 5 of Article 13 of the Federal Law of December 29, 2006 No. 255-FZ). A certificate of incapacity for work can be issued either on paper or electronically.

What should an employer do with electronic sick leave in 2021?

Employers using electronic sick leave do not need to ensure the safety of sick leave certificates. After all, all information from the moment the electronic certificate of incapacity is opened is stored in the Social Insurance Fund system, and the employer can request it repeatedly. And when the FSS conducts an inspection of the employer, there will be no need .

To start working with electronic sick leave, you need to enter into an agreement with the Social Insurance Fund. And only in this case, and also with the employee’s consent, can electronic sick leave be accepted (clause 2 of the Rules, approved by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of December 16, 2017 No. 1567).

Other amendments

Law No. 86-FZ also made changes to two articles of the Federal Law of November 21, 2011 No. 323-FZ “On the fundamentals of protecting the health of citizens in the Russian Federation.”

An addition was made to Article 59 of Law No. 323-FZ, which regulates the procedure for examining temporary disability.

In accordance with Part 2 of this article, the examination of temporary disability is carried out by the attending physician, who alone issues certificates of incapacity to citizens for a period of up to fifteen calendar days inclusive. In certain cases, paramedics and dentists can individually issue sick leave, but for a shorter period, up to ten calendar days inclusive. In accordance with Part 3 of Article 59 of Law N 323-FZ, the extension of a certificate of incapacity for work for a longer period than specified in Part 2 of the article (but no more than fifteen calendar days at a time) is carried out by decision of the medical commission. She is appointed by the head of the medical organization from among the doctors who have been trained in the examination of temporary disability.

From July 1, 2021, in accordance with the new paragraph 3.2 of Article 59 of Law N 323-FZ, a certificate of incapacity for work can be issued in the form of a paper document or (with the written consent of the patient) in the form of an electronic document. The electronic sick leave must be signed using an enhanced qualified electronic signature by a medical professional and a medical organization.

The changes also affected Article 78 of Law No. 323-FZ, which defines the rights of medical organizations. Before the amendments, medical organizations had the right to:

make proposals to the founder to optimize the provision of medical care to citizens;
participate in the provision of medical care to citizens of the Russian Federation in accordance with the program of state guarantees of free medical care, which includes a basic program of compulsory medical insurance;
issue prescriptions for medications, certificates, medical reports and certificates of incapacity for work in the manner established by the authorized federal executive body;
carry out scientific and (or) research activities, including conducting fundamental and applied scientific research;
create local information systems containing data about patients and the medical services provided to them, in compliance with the requirements established by the legislation of the Russian Federation for the protection of personal data and compliance with medical confidentiality.

From July 1, 2021, the right to issue certificates of incapacity for work was excluded from paragraph 3. The medications, medical products listed in this paragraph, as well as the prescription forms issued for them, are issued in the manner approved by Order of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia dated February 12, 2007 N 110. This procedure was developed in accordance with Article 6.2 of the Federal Law dated July 17, 1999 N 178- Federal Law “On State Social Assistance” and in order to provide citizens, including those entitled to receive state social assistance, with a range of social services. The list of such services includes the provision, in accordance with the standards of medical care, of necessary drugs for medical use according to prescriptions for drugs, medical products according to prescriptions for medical products, as well as specialized medical nutrition products for disabled children.

As for the right of medical organizations to issue sick leave certificates, it has migrated to the new paragraph 3.1 of Article 78 of Law No. 323-FZ. And in this paragraph we are already talking about the right to issue certificates of incapacity for work not in the manner established by the authorized federal executive body, but in the manner established by the legislation of the Russian Federation on compulsory social insurance in case of temporary disability and in connection with maternity. In accordance with Article 13 of Law No. 255-FZ, this procedure was approved by Order of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia dated June 29, 2011 No. 624n. The procedure establishes the rules for making entries on a paper certificate of incapacity for work and issuing it in various insurance cases.

It should be expected that this document will also be updated after the amendments introduced by the commented Law regarding the procedure for issuing electronic certificates of incapacity for work come into effect.

August 2021

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What does an electronic certificate of incapacity for work look like?

What does electronic sick leave look like in 2021? Where can I see the photo?

The form of electronic and paper certificates of incapacity for work is essentially the same . The form of the certificate of incapacity for work was approved by order of the Ministry of Health and Social Development dated April 26, 2011 No. 347n. And the procedure for generating electronic certificates of incapacity for work is by order of the Ministry of Health of Russia dated September 1, 2020 No. 925n. It’s just that the electronic sick leave is issued in the form of a file , and not on paper.

How can an employer view an email?

Let's now find out how to find an email for an employer. Today, all large and medium-sized employers are obliged to connect to a special Social Insurance Fund database, with which you can keep track of electronic slips.

At the same time, you need to understand that if an employee fills out an electronic form, the employer is obliged to fill out his part of the form using a computer after the employee of the organization is discharged from the hospital.

The electronic card also allows the employer to receive a compensation payment from the Social Insurance Fund for the employee, and the amount of financial assistance in the case of paper and electronic registration does not differ. In general, the procedure for filling out forms and receiving compensation is as follows:

The employer enters into a special agreement with any regional branch of the Social Insurance Fund to provide access to the database.
The employer registers in a special social insurance program called the Unified IIS “Sotsstrakh”. Accounting and registration of all electronic and paper documents is carried out in this program.
The employer undertakes to train an accountant at his own expense so that he learns how to use the Social Insurance program. The law also allows you to hire an additional accountant who already knows the rules for using the program.
After completing the training, an accountant must receive from some government agency (for example, the MFC) a special electronic signature, which will confirm electronic certificates about the employee undergoing treatment. The employer must bear all official expenses for registration.
The design is ready. If a person has opened a certificate for undergoing treatment, then upon completion of treatment the employee is obliged to inform the accountant of a special code, which is the identification number of the certificate. After this, the accountant, using the Social Insurance program, finds the employee’s sheet and fills out his part of the certificate. Then he calculates and pays compensation for treatment within no more than 10 days after receiving the certificate, and also submits information about sick leave to the Social Insurance Fund - after some time, the employer receives monetary compensation for the person’s treatment from the Social Insurance Fund.

When will an electronic sick leave be issued in 2021, and when will a paper one be issued?

Sick leave in electronic form is issued at the request of the person. To do this, he writes consent to receive a certificate of incapacity for work electronically. There is no obligation - no .

The electronic sick leave is certified with an enhanced qualified electronic signature and placed in the FSS information system - the Unified Integrated Information System "Sotsstrakh". Paper equivalent - not issued .

Read more about this on the official website of the FSS here.

To receive a sick leave certificate in electronic form, the medical organization and the employer must be participants in the Sotsstrakh information interaction system.

The employee can find out whether the employer is connected to this system from the accounting or human resources department.

To connect to the Social Insurance system, employers can use their own modified software, as well as the policyholder’s personal account.

If you have a password on the State Services website

If the user is already registered on the web portal https://www.gosuslugi.ru, then he has the opportunity to log into the FSS personal account through State Services. The fss ru personal account can be found at the email address https://cabinets.fss.ru/.

The algorithm for logging into your personal account using the State Services portal is as follows:

On the main page, you should select a section, depending on who you are entering as: an insured person, a policyholder, or an employee of the ITU office.
Next, the registration program will take you to the next stage - to a window where you need to enter your login and password.

You can access the electronic account of the Social Insurance Fund through the State Services portal in several ways:

by entering your SNILS number;
by entering your mobile number;
by specifying your email address;
using the electronic signature key.

If the user has already registered on the State Services portal, then he can log into the FSS electronic personal account using one of the first three options. We enter the SNILS/mobile number or email address in the login field, and use the password from the Public Services service itself as a password.

An electronic signature is a special cipher that can be used as an alternative to a paper signature. Having one, an individual can use various types of electronic services, remotely signing digital documents. The State Services service offers to create an electronic signature at the stage of initial registration.

So, after entering the data to enter your FSS personal account, click on the appropriate button so that the system will proceed further. And, if you did everything correctly, the State Services portal will immediately transfer you to your personal account of the Social Insurance Fund.

The employee reported that he has an electronic sick leave: what should the employer do?

If the sick leave is generated electronically, the employer will receive from his employee only the number of the electronic certificate of incapacity for work. information from the Social Insurance system about the issued certificate of incapacity for work.

The employer cannot find out the specific diagnosis from the certificate of incapacity for work. The sheet contains only the code. It will also not be possible to view sick leave certificates that the employee received while working for other employers.

Since 2021, the FSS pilot project “Direct Payments” has been extended to all regions of Russia (Federal Law No. 401-FZ dated November 30, 2016). This means that employers must continue to pay only :

the first 3 days of sick leave;
additional days off to care for a disabled child;
funeral benefit.

The FSS pays the rest of the benefits itself .

In 2021, an electronic sick leave benefit must be assigned for temporary disability and maternity leave within 10 calendar days from the date the employee applies with an electronic sick leave number. And the payment of benefits must be made on the day closest to the date established for the payment of wages .

If an employee brings an electronic sick leave certificate, and the employer has not switched to electronic interaction with the Social Insurance Fund, the employee will be asked to replace the electronic certificate of incapacity for work with a paper one.

Previously, a register of information was transferred to the FSS for calculating benefits by offset. It also indicated in what form the sick leave certificate was received from the employee - paper or electronic.

KEEP IN MIND
In 2021, FSS employees called organizations and demanded that they switch to electronic sick leave as soon as possible. However, the employer has the right to refuse to use electronic sick leave. This rule applies to all companies.

If the employer does not want to deal with electronic sick leave, you do not have to connect to the Unified Integrated Information System of the Social Insurance Fund “Sotsstrakh”. Then employees will continue to be issued sick leave on paper. And even if the medical institution issues an electronic form to the employee, he will have to return for a paper form. This does not threaten the employer in any way (FSS letter dated 08/11/2017 No. 02-09-11/22-05-13462).

Employee actions

Let's consider the receipt of sick leave by employees of enterprises.

Receipt

It is useful for an employee to know how to apply for electronic sick leave. This can be done in a medical facility. An employee receiving a certificate of incapacity for work has the right to choose a carrier. Before choosing an electronic form, it is recommended to check at work whether ENL support is implemented there. If yes, then the employee only needs to notify him of his decision during an appointment with a doctor and give consent to the processing of personal data. The sheet does not need to be certified; it will be assigned an individual code, which the employee can report to his company. Knowing the code, the company will be able to track the status of sick leave and calculate benefits.

Whether or not to use electronic sick leave is a matter for the employer. As of 2021, the use of electronic sick leave is a company right, not an obligation.

How to extend an electronic sick leave certificate

Extension of an electronic sick leave follows the same procedure as the extension of a regular one. After passing the initial examination, the doctor fills out the patient’s electronic disability form and transmits the unique sheet code to the latter. On a second visit, if the patient does not improve, the doctor may extend sick leave by 3 days. The total time spent on sick leave should not exceed 15 days, otherwise a medical commission will be assembled. Only it can prolong the disability.

The only difficulty in extending sick leave is changing the place of treatment. If a patient was treated in one institution and moves to another, he should notify the FSS, which will cancel the current sheet and issue a new one indicating the new medical institution. The days spent on sick leave will remain the same.

If the employer does not accept electronic sick leave

For an employee who has received a virtual illness certificate from a doctor, but is unable to obtain a certificate from the employer, it is legal to replace the virtual form with a paper one. To do this, the employee should contact the doctor who issued the electronic sick leave. The attending physician will give the patient a paper sheet, making a note on it about duplication. After filling out, indicating the number and period of illness, a paper sick leave form is given to the patient. The electronic duplicate of the sheet is destroyed.

New technologies in the administrative part of healthcare are necessary. Innovations simplify the lives of patients and relieve doctors from paperwork. Unfortunately, the electronic sick leave service has not yet been implemented everywhere. Lack of funding and poor level of computer technology knowledge among ordinary registry employees slows down the implementation of the service.

Technical features of working with electronic sick leave in 2021

The introduction of ENL allows you to immediately correctly create a register in accordance with the requirements of the Social Insurance Fund. In your personal account, you can immediately draw up an application for payment to the employee and give it to him for signature. Also, the program will automatically update the details of the clinic and the bank, so errors for the benefit recipient are excluded .

Also, in your personal account, you can send several e-numbers and registers at once (relevant for large companies with a large staff) . The register and electronic login can also be sent by a company serving your business or a remote accountant.

The digital signature certificate automatically checked for authenticity, and the registry is checked for errors. If you made mistakes, you can see them in the protocol and correct them immediately .

If you have already sent the register to the Social Insurance Fund via electronic tax record and noticed an error (for example, in determining the length of service), this can be easily corrected: you need to create a new register with updated data and send it again in your personal account to the Fund.

What determines the size of the payment now?

The amount is calculated by the Fund’s specialists based on information about the employee provided by the employer. The calculation is based on the amount of official earnings. The part issued “in an envelope” is not included there.

What is the maximum payout you can receive?

Usually the calculation is made from the average payment for one day, sometimes from the minimum wage. Since the beginning of 2021, amendments have come into force, which state that the upper limit of the payment amount, in addition to the number of days missed, now depends on a number of conditions:

employee experience;
the maximum level of the base for calculating insurance premiums for insurance during a specific period.

In 2021, payments are calculated based on the salary for the previous 2 years: for 2021, income not exceeding 755,000 rubles is taken into account, for 2021 - no more than 815,000.

Since the maximum level of the contribution base increased in 2021 to 815,000 rubles, the maximum amount of payment for sick leave in 2021 increased. It amounted to 2150.68 rubles. – per day: (755,000 + 815,000)/730 days.

Interesting!

Employees with more than 8 years of experience can count on 2150.68. If the length of service is from 5 to 8 years, then the amount of payment will be less - 2150.68 × 80% = 1720.54 rubles per day, because under this condition, only 80% of the salary is due. If the experience is less than 5 years, then they pay 60% of the daily wage - 1290.41 rubles (2150.68 × 60%).

The minimum threshold depends on what the minimum wage was at the time of the employee’s illness. The indicator is used if the employee has little experience or the calculated payment for one day is too small.

From the beginning of January 2021, the federal minimum wage level is 11,280 rubles. The benefits are calculated specifically according to the federal indicator on the basis of clause 11.1 of the Russian Federation Regulations dated June 15, 2007 No. 37. This does not include regions with established regional earnings coefficients.

What if the benefit is more than the established limit? This occurs if the employee's average daily income is greater than the maximum threshold. The employer has the right to pay an increased amount, but the Social Insurance Fund will not reimburse funds in excess of the norm. The fund will return a portion not exceeding the upper threshold.

Where to go if benefits have not been accrued

The employer’s obligation is to redirect the EBL along with the set of documents necessary for calculating the payment to the Social Insurance Fund within 5 working days after receipt. The fund is given 10 days to make the calculation and make the payment. If the money has not been credited to the employee’s account within 15 days, it is worth checking with the employer about submitting information to the Social Insurance Fund, and only then contacting the local branch of the Fund.

Information about the proper payment can be seen on the official FSS page in your personal account even before it is transferred to the account. If an employee does not want to register, he can come to his FSS unit with an identification document.

The purpose of the transition of employers and medical institutions to this form of interaction is the availability of insurance coverage and saving time for the Fund’s specialists. In addition, an electronic document is convenient for many categories of citizens. The process of receiving it is very simple, and the calculation of benefits and payments are transparent.

Benefits for employers from 2021

Working with sick leave on the principle of direct payments allows the employer not to have a reserve of funds to pay benefits. This improves the financial stability of policyholders.

When electronically processing sick leave certificates, it takes significantly less time to fill them out. Also, when filling out it is almost impossible to make mistakes (except for the calculation part).

When preparing reports to the Social Insurance Fund, you do not need to calculate the amounts that should have been offset against the amount of insurance premiums and benefits paid. This greatly simplifies the work of an accountant.

Benefits of ELN for the patient

All the advantages of electronic disability sheets are obvious: they cannot be lost or damaged, and they are easier to fill out. But there are also some disadvantages: for example, they are not available in areas without the Internet. Let’s outline all the pros and cons of ELN using visual tables.

What is good about an electronic sick leave and why is it better than a paper one?

Their disadvantages:

Benefits for employees from 2021

As for workers, starting from 2021, the widespread use of ENL eliminates violations in the assignment of benefits. The employee is no longer dependent on the employer in this regard.

Payments have become more transparent , which has increased the social security of all residents of the Russian Federation.

An employee can easily check information about the timing and amount of the upcoming sick leave payment in his FSS personal account by gaining access through the State Services website. If there is no Internet, this can always be done directly through FSS employees.

The introduction of electronic sick leave allows you to receive benefits in several ways:

postal transfer;
to a bank account;
to a payment card.

That is, this part is not tied to the salary project.

If the employee only knows the card number, the benefit can be received by indicating only this detail in the application (ideally, the bank’s BIC or correspondent account).

Pros of use

The benefits of ELN could not be better understood in 2021, which, for all known reasons, turned out to be very fruitful for sick leave.

Paper forms are classified as strictly reporting documents with special protection. Their production is very expensive, and loss or damage causes trouble for doctors, patients and employers. Digital forms reduce the cost of printing paper media and allow you to “painlessly” correct mistakes.

If an electronic certificate is used, the possibility of falsifying a certificate of incapacity for work is minimized. Although most offenses in this area are not related to forgery, but to the issuance of documents unfounded by the employee’s illness, the question of how to check the authenticity of an electronic sick leave certificate is losing relevance. The patient’s contact with this document is minimized, and the employee will not be able to make changes to it.

Another plus is that the amount of work for HR officers is reduced. They no longer have to worry about transferring paper documents to the Social Insurance Fund, checking their authenticity and ensuring their secure storage.

These are just some of the benefits that the electronic sick leave implemented by the Social Insurance Fund brings. Add also a reduction in the processing time and receipt of documentation, which is important when operating an enterprise in modern conditions.

conclusions

So, the following points will help you understand the issue of payment for electronic sick leave in 2021:

Electronic sick leave completely replaces paper ones. An employee can be prescribed it only if both the employer and the medical institution are connected to the Social Insurance Unified Information System;
In the UIIS, an electronic sick leave appears after it is discharged by a medical institution. There the employer fills out his part of the document. to print and store electronic sick leave ;
to work with the Unified Personal Information System, an organization needs a personal account on the State Services website;
You can work with the UIIS through the policyholder’s personal account on the FSS website or the FSS software, or through an accounting program that allows this.

Disadvantages of implementation

Along with the positive aspects, there are still questions and disadvantages, possibly temporary, from the introduction of electronic sick leave.

It is not entirely clear, for example, how an electronic sick leave will be issued if the patient calls a doctor at home. In this case, the doctor must be provided with a modern gadget and taught how to use it. But this is not so fast and not cheap. Among local therapists there are many people of retirement age for whom mastering computer programs will not be easy. And those doctors who master the new system are not immune to errors in the preparation of electronic documents.

As recent events have shown, due to virus attacks (in this case not on people, but on computer equipment), serious disruptions occur in the work of both medical institutions and other organizations. However, most medical specialists cannot see patients until the problems are resolved.

Registration of sick leave for pregnant women: how periods of incapacity have increased

Order 925n, by order of the Ministry of Health, contributed to an increase in the duration of the period of incapacity for some categories of women:

200 days is the maximum duration of sick leave for pregnancy and childbirth. Women who are carrying two or more babies and who live in areas contaminated by the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the Mayak Production Association and the dumping of waste into the Techa River have the right to count on it. In order 624n the maximum approved period was 194 days.
If the baby is born before the 22nd week of pregnancy and lives for more than six days, the woman will be entitled to at least 156 calendar days of sick leave.

A guide to personnel issues from Consultant Plus will help you send a pregnant employee on maternity leave without violating legal requirements. Get online access to the system for free and find out everything about this type of vacation.

How can a patient receive ELN?

In order to receive sick leave in electronic form, an employee must complete a number of simple steps:

you need to contact your employer (as a rule, we are talking about financial departments), where you need to clarify information about whether it is included in the Social Insurance Fund system for the use of electronic sick leave;
if the employer is included in such a system, it is necessary to contact the attending physician at the medical organization where such an employee is currently served and notify him that he needs an electronic certificate of incapacity for work;
after a doctor or other employee of a given medical institution has been notified of the need to issue an electronic certificate of incapacity for work, the person must provide certain documents to issue this type of document.

What documents are required with ELN, and what do they look like?

Each medical institution has its own list of documents that must be prepared to obtain an electronic sick leave. However, the package of basic documents required by the Social Insurance Fund includes:

an identification document of a person (most often this is a general passport, and if we are talking about a foreign citizen working in Russia, then the document that certifies the identity of such a foreign citizen);
a certificate from the place of work about the special name of the employer to be indicated on the sick leave;
a certificate from a doctor with the disease code and the validity period of the initial period of the issued sick leave. Such a certificate is certified by the doctor’s personal signature in order to prevent falsification of this document;
if the sick leave is extended by decision of a medical and social examination or by decision of a special medical commission, it is necessary to provide a document that was drawn up following a meeting of such a commission.

In conditions where people come from other countries where the epidemiological situation with the incidence of coronavirus infection is very difficult, another document that must be provided when issuing an electronic sick leave for quarantine is an international passport in the form of scanned copies - its page with a photo and with notes on entry and exit from a country with such an epidemiological situation - or tickets for any type of transport to confirm the fact of being in the territory of such a country in the absence of marks in the international passport.

Why is ENL not available to all citizens?

An electronic certificate of incapacity for work is still not available to all persons who wish to issue it. Most often, this is due to the fact that the employer himself, whose staff includes a person who wishes to issue an electronic sick leave, has not switched to an electronic document management system with the Social Insurance Fund, as a result of which he cannot accept an electronic sick leave.

Another option, when a person cannot receive an electronic document about his disability, is that at one time or another the medical institution does not have the ability to issue an electronic version. This reason may be due to the lack of technical capabilities, for example, if there are technical difficulties in the operation of the electronic document management service.

Is it possible to get it in a private clinic?

Before answering this question, it should be noted that there are currently two types of private medical institutions:

the first received a special license to issue sick leave certificates;
the latter do not have such a license.

If an organization has the above license, then it has the right to issue both electronic and standard paper sick leave certificates. However, in order to clarify whether electronic disability documents are issued in a given medical institution, you should contact specialized administrators who will help clarify this information.

As a rule, if a private clinic has a special agreement with the Social Insurance Fund on the acceptance of certificates of incapacity for work issued by them, then an electronic sick leave can be issued to be provided to its employer.

What actions can be taken with the electronic tax record through the websites of the State Services and the Social Insurance Fund? How can an employee find and check his personal identification number?

The websites of the Social Insurance Fund and Gosuslugi work in close interrelation with each other, which allows you to log into your personal account on the FSS website through an account on Gosuslugi.

Each person has access to information on his electronic sick leave. To do this, he can go to his personal account on the website of the Social Insurance Fund. Information verification will be carried out as follows:

first you need to go to the website of the Social Insurance Fund, where you need to log into your personal account;

from your personal account you will be transferred to the State Services website to undergo authorization there. To do this, you will need to log into your personal account on this site by entering information about your phone number, SNILS or email and your existing password, after which you will be logged into your account. If an entry has not been created previously, you will need to first register on this site;

after authorization has been completed on the State Services website, the system will automatically redirect to your personal account, where information about all available sick leave will be available;

in order to find your electronic certificate of incapacity for work, you must enter its number (if it is known, for example, because the person recently visited a doctor, or he has such data saved). If the number is unknown, then you can search by passport data or by SNILS number (since they are also linked to all sick leave), but in this case the calendar period will have to be selected manually from memory, since in the case of such a selection (for example, if a passport changed due to age or change of surname) information about all sick leave will be provided;
in the tab dedicated to the selected sick leave, you will be able to see all the information that is currently available on it, including regarding the calculations made for a specific sick leave.

Through your personal account at the Social Insurance Fund, you can obtain a fairly wide range of information about when the sick leave was issued, in what institution, how many days it lasted, whether there were any violations of the regime, where exactly the person was treated, and also how it was processed by the Fund itself, including in terms of calculating and making payments.

What to do if you couldn’t get an ELN

If it was not possible to obtain an electronic certificate of incapacity for work, for example, due to technical problems, the person may be issued a paper version.

If it is important for a person to receive an electronic document, he, having the data of a paper sick leave, has the right to contact the medical institution where he received the paper document and ask to be given an electronic form.

In this case, all information contained in the form will be entered into an electronic document, and the paper form will be destroyed. As soon as the electronic document is generated, the number assigned to it is communicated to the applicant so that he can provide it to his employer.

What to do if you lose your number

If for some reason the electronic sick leave number is lost, a person has three paths he can take:

The first - the easiest way - is to contact the medical institution where the electronic document was issued. The employee who issued this certificate of incapacity for work will help restore the lost number based on the passport data;
the second option, which can be used if you have an account on the State Services website, is associated with the insured person contacting his personal account. In this case, based on passport data, it will be possible to obtain information about all the sick leave that was issued to the person, and based on data on the calendar dates of the illness, it will be possible to find the exact number of the sick leave;
The third option is to make a request in a special form on the official website of the Social Insurance Fund indicating passport data and SNILS so that employees who work in this area can find the specified information. However, if possible, it is better to use the first two options, since restoration through a request to the FSS website can take quite a long time.

Which sick leave is better to take?

As a rule, the patient is not offered to choose which type to apply for. If technically possible, the certificate of incapacity for work will be issued electronically. Of course, the ELN is more convenient for the patient: it cannot be lost or dented, and there is no need to specifically go to the accounting department to give it away (the ELN comes there on its own via the Internet).

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Sick leave when restrictive measures are introduced: nuances

The coronavirus pandemic and the implementation of measures to combat it significantly influenced the decision of legislators to approve new rules for issuing sick leave under restrictive measures.

Order 925n dated 09/01/2020 establishes that sick leave is issued for the entire period of restrictions being introduced to those persons who, due to the unfavorable epidemiological situation, are ordered to comply with the self-isolation regime.

Sick leave for the care of children under 7 years of age attending kindergartens, or incapacitated family members will be issued in cases where quarantines are introduced in kindergartens and other relevant institutions at the local or federal level.

In addition, a visit to the doctor will no longer be mandatory to obtain a sick leave certificate. Now the doctor will be able to prescribe it after seeing the patient remotely via telemedicine technologies. Such sick leave is issued only electronically by a doctor or paramedic entered in the Federal Register of Health Workers and working in a medical institution, also included in the corresponding register of medical organizations. This rule also applies to sick leave issued in connection with the upcoming birth.

What innovations have appeared in issuing sick leave when caring for family members?

Order of the Ministry of Health 925 introduced some clarifications to the registration of sick leave issued when caring for sick family members:

In the new order, there are no restrictions on the number of days of sick leave when caring for children from 7 to 15 years old. According to Order No. 624, such sick leave was issued for no more than 15 days, except in cases of extension by a medical commission. However, payment of benefits will continue to be made - up to 15 days inclusive for one insured event and up to 45 days inclusive for a calendar year, since the provisions of Law No. 255-FZ in this part have not been adjusted.
If older family members are ill, the maximum period for which sick leave will be issued is 7 days. He was the same before, but only by decision of the medical commission.
When treating two children at the same time, only one sick leave certificate is opened, while three or more children contribute to the opening of another certificate of incapacity for work. However, this only applies to paper forms. Electronic sick leave is issued in a single version without taking into account the number of sick children.
The new procedure guarantees the opening of sick leave for one parent to care for a child in cases where the second is on leave to care for another child under three years of age.

In addition to these clarifications, Order 925n of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation introduced changes to the reflection of information about sick family members. Now, in addition to full name the sick person and the relative will need to indicate the SNILS number of the person being cared for and the ICD code.