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SHI-accredited physicians and psychotherapists must bill the statutory health insurance funds according to a standardized evaluation scale (EBM). The Extended Evaluation Committee (EBA) has just finalized how the activities of physicians in relation to the electronic patient record (ePA) will be reimbursed and thus remunerated.
Accordingly, two new fee schedule items, defined as GOP 01431 and 01647, have been included in the remuneration catalog. Both positions are binding thereafter for physicians and psychotherapists, if they file medical findings and therapy plans as well as physician letters in the context of the medical documentation. A fee on an independent consultation service, on the other hand, was rejected by the EBA.
The Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung (KBV) sees the level of remuneration for these two newly included positions as a problem. For the position number GOP 01647, physicians and psychotherapists will receive a one-time credit of 1.67 euros/15 points per quarter, even retroactively to the beginning of 2021, but only if they record, process and/or store patient data. The supplement is guaranteed and remunerated in addition to insured, basic and consultation flat rates.
For the fee schedule item (GOP) 01431, 0.33 euros/3 points are paid up to four times per quarter, even if there was no direct doctor-patient contact and no video consultation was billed. Payment is made outside the budget.
For the initial filling of the ePA, which physicians are obligated to do if the patient requests it, they will receive remuneration of ten euros for the year 2021, or at least that is how the legislature has determined it. However, some details of the cross-sector agreement are still in the works and will be announced later.
For the patient, however, the use of the ePA is based on a voluntary basis. After a six-month test phase, physicians and psychotherapists will then be involved in nationwide use. The EBA will then also review the level of remuneration again and adjust it if necessary, as well as include additional activities in the fee schedule.

Source: Aerzteblatt