Abstracts by key term: Patient pathway
For many years, experts have been warning that the historically created sector boundaries and the associated false incentives with breaks in care and incorrect care in the German healthcare system should be addressed and eliminated (SVR 2012; SVR 2018; Nagel et al. 2017). The care areas of the medical care centers (MVZ) implemented in the Fifth Social Code (SGB V) according to § 95, the day hospital treatment according to § 115, the pre- and post-inpatient treatment according to § 115a, outpatient surgery according to § 115b, the authorization according to § 116 , outpatient treatment at the hospital (ABK) according to § 116b old version, the university outpatient clinic according to § 117, the social psychiatric outpatient clinics according to § 120, the affiliated doctor system according to § 121, the disease management programs according to § 137f, the previously integrated and now special Care in accordance with Section 140a SGB V, to name just a few, have neither eliminated the parallel care structures nor reduced sector boundaries nor equalized the differences between urban and rural areas (Dengler et al. 2018; Jacobs 2019; Wolf 2020).