The public health insurance is administered by approximately 113 “Krankenkassen” or “sickness funds”. The price of the public system is based on gross income. The cost is traditionally split between employer and employee per month, making insurance coverage a bargain price. Even better, spouses...
In Germany, cost-sharing for health care has been used as a financing mechanism since 1923. In this article, the historical development of user charges in Germany since the 1980s is presented in more detail by type of private expenditure, including direct payments, cost-sharing measures, and ...
It reviews official legislation on cost-sharing in Germany from 1883 to 2008, and provides a structured literature review on the efficiency and equity of cost-sharing. First introduced in 1923, cost-sharing has become a widespread instrument in social health insurance regulation since the 1980s. ...
In response, the German Parliament has enacted several major and minor legal reforms over the last three decades for the sake of cost containment and maintaining stability of the health care system. The Statutory Health Insurance-SHI (Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung-GKV) is based on the ...
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Germany has partner agreements with other countries too, such as Turkey. Not all of the benefits available in Germany are refundable abroad. Moreover, much higher copayments may apply in some countries. German health insurances cannot cover the cost of a medically necessary repatriation either. Co...
stringent government regulation and implementation by not-for-profit health insurers - the sickness funds - which operate under public law.Since the mid-1970s, when health care cost containment gradually evolved as a new issue in German healthcare policy-making, a long series of reform programmes...
This paper gives a systematic overview of resource use that is relevant within the German health-care system from the perspective of the statutory health insurance and how these resource uses should be priced in economic analyses. This includes all relevant cost domains from ambulatory and inpatient...
Germany is in a period of transition with regard to healthcare reform. The number and intensity of cost control interventions increased during the last dec... U. Volker,W. Eberhard - 《Pharmacoeconomics》 被引量: 31发表: 1996年 Equal Rights and Equal Duties? Activating Labour Market Policy an...
This program will ensure that you will be taken back into the private insurance at your return to Germany. No matter what happens to you and how ill you are. The rates charged will be the equivalent of others your age. There will not be a surcharge if you are sick. This cost about ...