The first reading of the Hospital Care Improvement Act in the Bundestag is scheduled for next Thursday (27 June). For the head of the private hospital chain Schön Kliniken Dr. This is not good news for Mate Ivančić. The doctor and clinic manager is highly critical of reform approaches to the Hospital Care Improvement Act (KHVVG), as he explains in the “ÄrzteTag” podcast.
Ivančić believes that the allocation of service groups in North Rhine-Westphalia gave the Schön-Klinikum in Düsseldorf approximately what was requested, and the current postponements should be taken into account through the comment process. But, at the same time, the service groups would also be allocated quantities that a clinic that meets the structural requirements would be authorized to provide. “We are really moving into a completely centralized system, there is no incentive to achieve the highest quality of results possible,” complains the clinic manager in the podcast.
In the interview, Ivančić explains why he still considers Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to be adequate as a basis for charging hospitals, how DRGs need to be improved to eliminate problems and what has already been done to avoid excesses. for example, in bonus agreements. (Duration: 35:56 minutes)
