TK confirms initial discussions with VLD

04.06.2012 18:50

Pro Liefer GmbH, a commercial subsidiary of the HÄVG Haus Ärztevertragsgemeinschaft AG and thus the General Practitioners Association - with over 32,000 members and 17 regional associations, the largest professional association of contract doctors - presented three care landscapes at the DDG in Stuttgart. The basis of the care landscapes (VL), starting with diabetes, rheumatism and nursing care, is a stratification cluster that can be transferred to many indications, on which care solutions across sectors and professional groups are to be set up and incorporated into selective contracts (§ 140a ff and § 73c SGB V). The TK now confirmed in a conversation with “Monitor Healthcare Research” that the general practitioners’ association had presented the diabetes concept to the Techniker Krankenkasse, but the negotiations are only at the very beginning.

GmbHs have already been founded for each of the care landscapes (an idea that originally came about in a kind of think tank at the Lilly company). In the case of care, the Federal Association of Private Providers of Social Services (bpa) is involved, and in the case of rheumatism, the professional association of rheumatologists. In the case of diabetes only, Pro Liefer/HÄVG is currently the economic sponsor because the ideal partners who presented VL Diabetes (VLD) at the DDG in Stuttgart did not want to participate in the GmbH: These were the professional association of established diabetologists ( BVND), the German Society for General Medicine (DEGAM) and the Federal Association of Diabetologists in Clinics (BVDK).