Abstracts by key term: Discount contract
The German healthcare system is a powerful and adaptive system in which discount and direct contracts are currently one of the most important competitive options for a health insurance company in order to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of care and to create transparency with the help of accompanying scientific studies. Ultimately, supply management as a sensible concept can only be decided through competition and not through government guidelines and regulation.
23.09.2012
Direct contracts started out as discount contracts for pharmaceuticals. In the meantime, however, it is becoming apparent that they are covering more and more areas of care through general practitioner and specialist contracts. Everyone should benefit from these contracts: Health insurance companies have a better influence on the service, service providers receive better remuneration and patients better care. But it shouldn't cost more either. Whether this is successful can only be shown by means of health services research. It should also be noted that direct contracts must not put you in a worse position than standard care. This specification, which has received little attention in the previous discussion, is a steep template for health services research.