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G‐DRG Version 2007: Ein kurzer Überblick
Author(s) -
Müller Marcel L.,
Forschner Andrea,
Luger Thomas A.,
Rompel Rainer,
Roeder Norbert,
Hensen Peter
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
jddg: journal der deutschen dermatologischen gesellschaft
Language(s) - German
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.463
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1610-0387
pISSN - 1610-0379
DOI - 10.1111/j.1610-0387.2007.06375.x
Subject(s) - german , payment , medicine , healthcare system , health care , business , political science , geography , archaeology , law , finance
Just as in the year before, the structure and regulations of the new GDRG version 2007 was successfully agreed on a mutual basis by the national self-governing bodies in the German health care system. Although some problems in high-specialized medicine or day clinic care will remain, the current developments demonstrate once more the learning aptitude of the G-DRG-system. Some beneficial and major changes have been made in 2007, but most of them do not touch dermatology. Additional procedure-based payments have been introduced in 2007 including the parenteral administration of such expensive agents as etanercept and itraconazole. A statistical analysis of cost weights of the year 2006 versus 2007 for two university clinics suggests that in dermatology, the increasing complexity of the G-DRG system partly leads to lower cost weights. Overall in 2007 a remarkable increase of complexity and differentiation throughout the DRG-system can be identified as well as a careful expansion of procedure-based payments.