Medical technical aids "are not driving costs in Germany"
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
German producers of medical technical aids are at pains to stress that their products are not driving up the costs of the healthcare system. Wary that politicians will seize on a claim published in Financial Times Deutschland last month that seemed to extrapolate the experience of one sickness fund (Gmunder Ersatzkasse) to the whole country, the industry has hit back.