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Hospital associations are counting on more financial support in times of the Corona pandemic. However, Martin Litsch, chairman of the board of AOK-Bundesverband, urges for more sense of proportion in the financial needs of German clinics and hospitals, because according to the report of the expert advisory board, which meets next week and is convened by the Federal Minister of Health, more money has flowed in 2020 than in 2019.
Inpatient care is stable and robust, according to Litsch. In 2020, nine billion euros of additional financial aid flowed, which came from federal funds for vacancy financing on the one hand and are bonuses of the statutory health insurance (SHI) to expand the capacity of intensive care beds on the other.
For 685 million euros for keeping intensive care bed capacities free, the clinics still have to provide clarification as to where exactly the money actually arrived and what it was used for, clarifies the head of the AOK federal association.
Taxpayers and contribution payers of the GKV were thus the financiers of stationary mechanisms in the Corona crisis, which one would not like to load also further additionally, because there are and were no liquidity bottlenecks in the stationary range. According to the banking report, the risk of insolvency for hospitals was smaller in 2020 than it was in 2019 and is four times smaller than that of the economy as a whole.
Martin Litsch explains in the run-up to the meeting of the expert advisory board already times that clinics must experience above all support, which would have to bear the brunt of the Corona effects. Funding these clinics and hospitals is the priority, not economically compensating for vacancies in hospitals that don’t have to provide medical care for Covid 19 sufferers and postpone hospital treatments for business reasons.
The AOK chairman therefore pleads for a sense of proportion combined with differentiated legal requirements to maintain the quality of care in the inpatient sector.

Source: KMA-Online