: restructuring hospital financing and overhauling emergency services. While past efforts to reform emergency care have failed, the … complexity of Germany's decentralised system and competing interests among federal, state and local governments, and service … providers hinder progress. The Minister's plan includes integrated emergency centres and improved coordination between hospital …

its resource allocation at hospital level and its tariff calculation at national level. First, the paper reviews and … assesses the three steps in the G-DRG resource allocation scheme at hospital level: (1) the groundwork; (2) cost … calculation: (1) plausibility checks; (2) inlier calculation; and (3) the “one hospital” approach. The assessment is based on the …