The Risk Adjustment Reform Act of 2001 mandates that a health-status-based risk adjustment mechanism has to be implemented in Germany's Statutory Health Insurance system by January 1, 2007. German parliament decided this as with the existing demographic risk adjustment model, that means there is...

If health care expenditure for the elderly grows faster than for younger people, the expenditure profiles become "steeper" - we call that "steeping". Three instruments for measuring "steeping" are presented: (1) trend of the relation between per-capita-expenditure of the old and the young; (2)...

Das Bundesministerium für Gesundheit hat die Verfasser mit dem Gutachten zur Umsetzung und empirischen Abschätzung der Übergangsregelungen zur Einführung des Gesundheits-fonds (§ 272 SGB V) beauftragt. Die Verfasser haben am 01. April 2008 den Entwurf des Gutachtens vorgelegt. Es bestand...