Evaluation of selective contracts - requirements and implementation
The development in health care includes the implementation of contracts between different players as one of the main regulating factors. Contracts don't run by themselves; it's not enough to agree on content and sign it. The evaluation must be taken into account and planned as early as when the contract is concluded, and not only after 3 years, but continuously and concomitantly. The appropriate source for the information, as well as the type and amount of information required, depends on the type of contract and the content of the contract. In order to consider selective contracts with doctors or groups, data and evaluations from random samples of relevant size, which also allow regionally valid considerations and extrapolations, are required. Evaluations from billing data are not sufficient here because they do not adequately reflect medical behavior.
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Abstract: Evaluation von Selektivverträgen – Voraussetzungen und Umsetzung
The development in health care includes the implementation of contracts between different players as one of the main regulating factors. Contracts don't run by themselves; it's not enough to agree on content and sign it. The evaluation must be taken into account and planned as early as when the contract is concluded, and not only after 3 years, but continuously and concomitantly. The appropriate source for the information, as well as the type and amount of information required, depends on the type of contract and the content of the contract. In order to consider selective contracts with doctors or groups, data and evaluations from random samples of relevant size, which also allow regionally valid considerations and extrapolations, are required. Evaluations from billing data are not sufficient here because they do not adequately reflect medical behavior.
Abstract: Evaluation of contracts – requirements and implementation
As one of the main factors in German healthcare system contracts between the players in the healthcare market became more important. The benefit which is the expected outcome of these contracts has to be monitored. “Contract-Evaluation” as an ongoing process –beginning with conclusion of the contract- is one of the most important parts to manage and develop contracts for the duration. Depending on the content of the contracts, the adequate data source has to be found – selective contracts with doctors or with doctors associations need a view on practices including diagnosis- and prescription-information - additional professional methods of data aggregation.
Keywords (English)
contracts, data aggregation, data sources, discount contracts, Evaluation, healthcare system
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