BVMed
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
German Social Democrat Party members in the Bundestag back applying DRGs to the outpatient sector to abolish the practice of budgeting doctors' fees, the German medical technology association reports. In a separate Jan. 7 "New Year statement," BVMed emphasizes that structural health reforms in Germany should encompass more competition and patient responsibility and not focus on restrictive budgets since "it has become clear that medical technologies' progress is no longer affordable with the finite funds available" under the current system...