Nov 27, 2020 | EN, statutory health insurance
According to a report in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), the expenditures of the statutory health insurers (GKV) have increased rapidly. According to the report, a large deficit of three billion euros was generated in the third quarter of 2020, which is the...
Sep 17, 2020 | care, law, statutory health insurance
Germany is facing a dilemma in the field of out-of-hospital intensive care because at present it looks as if health insurance companies will no longer have to cover the costs of basic care for the seriously ill. Instead, basic care services will probably have to be...
Sep 2, 2020 | EN, statutory health insurance
A statutory health insurance member recently filed a lawsuit because the tax office reduced the bonus contribution refund for so-called health-conscious behaviour as a special expenses deduction and thus as taxable income. The Saxonian tax court did not see this...
Aug 31, 2020 | EN, general conditions, statutory health insurance
The German Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) has just announced that the statutory health insurance (SHI) generated a plus of 1.3 billion euros in the first half of 2020. Revenues of a total of 129.9 billion euros are offset by expenditures of „only“ 128.6...
Aug 26, 2020 | drugs, e-health, EN, project, statutory health insurance
The health insurance company Barmer has just presented its current drug report and in doing so presented the joint project that is intended to link health insurance companies, doctors and pharmacists in the outpatient and inpatient sectors. According to the report, an...
Aug 12, 2020 | drugs, pharmaceuticals, statutory health insurance
Biosimilars are biopharmaceuticals such as biotechnologically produced proteins that no longer have patent protection and can therefore be brought to market more cheaply. This saves a lot of money in times of the COVID 19 pandemic alone because the average daily...