>> According to Willes, there has been a trend towards increasing cooperation between doctors for some time in German healthcare, but the need for cross-sector integrated care and its particular importance for the German healthcare system are beyond question in politics and science , according to Wille, the latest developments in the area of special forms of care and the results of surveys among health insurance companies and hospitals paint a rather sobering picture. The contracts for the integrated forms of care according to Section 140a-d SGB V fell by around 25% from 2008 to 2009 with the expiry of the start-up financing without taking into account company health insurance funds, whose extensive third-party contracts would distort the (contract) figures upwards, and stagnated then (cf. Advisory Council for the Assessment of Developments in the Health Care System 2012, paragraph 438ff.) Will: “From the perspective

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