Fund chief urges roundtable
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The chairman of the Barmer replacement health fund, Eckart Fiedler, has welcomed moves in Germany to convene a round table meeting on contribution levels of the German health insurance funds. He wants to place particular emphasis on the Riskostrukturausgleich, a mechanism which requires the smaller, wealthier sickness funds to compensate the larger funds for loss of contribution as a result of the government's decision to allow policyholders to switch their fund membership.