Das Forschungsprojekt WAMP (Wandel von Medizin und Pflege im DRG-System) beschäftigt sich schon seit der Zeit vor der Einführung der Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) mit den (möglichen) Folgen der DRGs auf die Arbeitsbedingungen und die Versorgungsqualität im Krankenhaus. Die Grundannahme...

The inefficiency of health care provision presents a major health policy concern in Germany. In order to address the issue of efficiency comprehensively - i.e. at the level of the entire system of health care provision rather than individual service providers - empirical analyses are often based...

This study seeks to provide evidence for deciding whether or not a pharmaceutical innovation should be included in the benefit list of social health insurance. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted in Germany to measure preferences for modern insulin therapy. Of the 1,100 individuals...

Duplicate coverage involves those individuals who hold compulsory health insurance with the public sector and have additional coverage with the private sector. The additional insurance covers costs for outpatient and inpatient care, income loss and hospital daily allowances. The number of...

Germany is one of the few OECD countries with a two-tier system of statutory and primary private health insurance. Both types of insurance provide fee-for-service insurance, but chargeable fees for identical services are more than twice as large for privately insured patients than for...

In vielen Branchen nehmen mit dem Auftreten besonderer Herausforderungen strategische Überlegungen zu, die zur Gründung von Netzwerken und anderen Kooperationen führen. Solche sollen Kosten senken, zusätzliche Marktsegmente zugänglich machen, Risiken verringern und die Verwirklichung...