Budget removal key to German diagnostic industry revival
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The chairman of the German diagnostics industry association (VDGH), Volker Oeding, last week launched a blistering attack on the federal association of statutory health insurance physicians (KBV) and the leading groups of the statutory health insurance funds (GKV) whose budgetary policies were unnecessarily driving up the costs of the health service by denying the public the benefits of laboratory diagnostics. Speaking at a conference marking the 25th anniversary of VDGH in Berlin, Dr Oeding said: "The health service cannot be saved by senseless cost-cutting, but rather through the intelligent distribution of available resources."