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SHI: Balance sheet at the end of the pandemic year 2020

The German Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) has announced the exact figures for the health insurance funds‘ expenditure on services and income for 2020, which were also subject to fluctuations due to corona.According to these figures, all health insurance funds...

Hospital landscape has changed over the last 27 years

The Federal Statistical Office has analyzed the number of German hospital beds in 2018 compared to 1991 and found that their number has decreased by 25 percent. Whereas in 1991, according to the analysis, there were 666,000 beds in a total of 2,411 hospitals and...

Investment needs of many hospitals not sufficient

Several analyses by the German Hospital Institute (DKI) have led to the conclusion that 75 percent of all hospitals in Germany have an insufficient investment capacity because the individual federal states cannot guarantee adequate financing of investment costs....