Promote outpatient care: KVN demands that the BMG finally present a catalog of services

16.08.2023 12:29

The Lower Saxony Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KVN) has called on the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) to finally present the catalog of the services that should in future be provided on an outpatient basis before an inpatient basis.

“The KVN welcomes the fact that the federal government has taken the principle of “outpatient before inpatient” into account with Section 115f SGB V. After the tripartite negotiations to draft the paragraph failed in the spring, the Federal Ministry of Health is now obliged to provide a catalog of services for which the same sectoral remuneration can be used in the future. This has not happened so far,” criticizes KVN CEO Mark Barjenbruch. This design of the catalog by the BMG was announced for the end of June “Nothing has happened so far. The catalog with the amount of the flat rate per case is still a long time coming,” says Barjenbruch.

The National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and the umbrella association of specialists (SpiFa) had worked with the professional associations to develop a proposal for a catalog of services. This catalog has been available to the Federal Ministry of Health for four months. “I call on the Federal Ministry of Health to promptly use the potential contained therein for sustainable structural change in outpatient care,” says Barjenbruch.