German G-BA to get new panel under health reform
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The German healthcare financing draft bill, currently in parliamentary debate ahead of a planned April 2007 enforcement, will have a significant fall out on the Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss (joint federal committee), the body that rules on the introduction of reimbursable medical products and procedures. In the future, the G-BA will also include independent, full-time members, who are to be appointed by the self-governing bodies (the German hospital federation - DKG; doctors; and health insurance fund associations), according to MedInsight*, the monthly newsletter from BVMed/MedInform.