Das Krankenhausstrukturgesetz 2015 – Der gesundheitspolitisch richtige Weg? Eine wettbewerbsökonomische Einschätzung

Dittmann Heidi () and Kuchinke Björn A. ()
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Dittmann Heidi: Heidi Dittmann, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Fakultät Medien, Albrecht-Dürer-Str. 2, 99425 Weimar, E-Mail: heidi.dittmann@uni-weimar.de
Kuchinke Björn A.: Björn A. Kuchinke, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Fakultät Medien, Albrecht-Dürer-Str. 2, 99425 Weimar, Tel.: (03643) 583 786, E-Mail: bjoern.kuchinke@uni-weimar.de

Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, 2016, vol. 65, issue 2, 97-121

Abstract: German hospital markets are highly regulated. In 2016, a health care reform shall take place in which a special focus lies on hospital markets. According to statements of the federal government, especially new instruments in the hospital payment system will be introduced. For example, a new fund for investments, new quality parameters and a new calculation base for the DRG are implemented. In this paper, the new instruments are presented and analyzed for the first time. Overall, we find that the health care reform will not fix the given problems in the German hospital sector. Hospital competition will be reduced to a minimum. Neither the quality of care will increase nor the problems concerning costs or investments will be dissolved.

Keywords: Health Reform; Hospital Competition; Controlling; Efficiency; Gesundheitsreform; Krankenhauswettbewerb; Controlling; Effizienzpotenziale; Health Reform; Hospital Competition; Controlling; Efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H51 I11 I18 K32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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