Dez 4, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE, general conditions, health policy
With the consultation fee falling short as of 2013, health insurers are now afraid that compensatory financing from the national health fund will not compensate for the lack of funds. Siemens Betriebskrankenkasse (Siemens‘ company health insurace fund) advises...
Nov 6, 2012 | Allgemein, DE, general conditions, homecare / nursing care @en, market knowledge
The Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) will critically examine plans for mega-mergers in the German hospital market. „We are looking into this area very carefully,“ Bundeskartellamt President Andreas Mundt said Monday evening in Essen. (Quote...
Nov 6, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE, general conditions
The sickness funds fee has been abolished nine years after it was introduced again. On Monday in Berlin, the FDP, together with the CDU and CSU in Berlin announced that the payment of ten euros will no longer be in place as of the 1st January 2013. A reduction in...
Okt 30, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE, general conditions, market knowledge
More than three quarters of hospitals in Germany have difficulty filling their managerial positions. This is at its worst in small private clinics with up to 250 beds. These results from the study „Klinikmanagement 2012“ for the consulting firm Rochus...
Okt 19, 2012 | Allgemein, DE, general conditions, health policy
Public health insurance in the future will be subject to competition law. The Bundestag approved this on Thursday by vote of a coalition presented by the federal government, making an amendment to the Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB). The federal...
Okt 17, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE, general conditions, health policy
The growing surpluses in the health system should be reduced by a reduction in the contribution rate. This was demanded yesterday in Berlin, by the German Society for Health Economics (DGGÖ). „In ‚pay as you go‘ social systems, it is not the...