Mrz 13, 2020 | EN, statutory health insurance
For the first time since 2015, the statutory health insurance (GVK) has closed a budget year with deficits. In total, the deficit for the year 2019 amounts to about 1.5 billion euros, whereby all types of health insurance are affected, with the exception of...
Mrz 4, 2020 | cancer, EN, pharmacy, statutory health insurance
Already in the recent past, disputes between the German Pharmacists‘ Association (DAV) and the GKV-Spitzenverband regarding the auxiliary tax system for parenteral preparations by cyto-pharmacies have frequently occurred. On 1 March 2020, an arbitration award...
Feb 27, 2020 | EN, statutory health insurance
The statutory health insurance funds record a deficit of 1.6 billion euros for 2019. This compares to a plus of two billion euros for 2018. Since 2015, the statutory health insurance (GKV) has thus been reporting losses in the billions for the first time again, as the...
Feb 20, 2020 | EN, statutory health insurance, study
At the moment, the abolition of private health insurance (PKV) is a contentious issue between experts who are well placed to assess the dual health insurance system. A study by the Iges Institute, commissioned by the Bertelsmann Foundation, judges the division of...
Feb 19, 2020 | EN, law, statutory health insurance
The Bundestag passed the Fair Competition Act and thus complied with the long-demanded reform on morbidity-oriented risk structure compensation (Morbi-RSA). The core of the law is the financial equalisation between the health insurance funds. To this end, new...
Feb 15, 2020 | Digitalization, EN, statutory health insurance
Up to now, the long-term care insurance has only taken over digital assistance systems to a limited extent, namely if they were listed in the list of aids in the health and long-term care insurance, as in the example of home emergency call systems or certain digital...