Updates

After months of discussion, the federal and state governments agreed on key points for hospital remuneration reform (See Policy Analyses of 12 December 2022 and 7 February 2023). Not all recommendations proposed by the Government Commission were accepted. As recommended, the current remuneration with DRGs will largely be replaced by flat rates for services provided. In addition, newly defined service groups will be a remuneration criterion. However, it was not possible to reach an agreement on the introduction of the proposed “three levels of hospital care”. Based on these key points, an initial draft law should be available by the end of summer 2023, and the changes should come into force in January 2024.