Abstracts by keywords: Uniform assessment scale
On January 28, 2020, the Scientific Commission for a Modern Remuneration System (KOMV) handed over its “recommendations for a modern remuneration system” to the Federal Minister of Health (KOMV 2019).1 The coalition agreement for the 19th legislative period instructed it to “by the end of 2019 "Taking into account all related medical, legal and economic questions" to develop proposals for "a modern compensation system" that "represents the care needs of the population and the status of medical progress" (Coalition Agreement 2018, 4589-4594). The passage in the coalition agreement setting up the Scientific Commission was rounded off with a remarkable outlook: “Whether these suggestions will be implemented will be decided afterwards” (Coalition Agreement 2018, 4593f.). This cute, because somehow self-evident statement was an expression of the coalition's disunity: While Karl Lauterbach, the SPD's chief negotiator for the health policy part of the coalition agreement, saw the merger of the two remuneration systems for medical services as a building block of a unified health insurance system, the CDU was likely to do so /CSU have connected the declaration of intent "for the drawer" with this sentence (Jacobs 2020, 14).