The agreement on financial equalization reached on Tuesday also reached agreement on the healthcare reform sought by Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens). According to the Ministry of Health, significant compromises were made in the medical association’s favor during the latest negotiations, especially when it came to compensation and the overall contract. There is also no obligation to prescribe active ingredients.
The planned restrictions on physicians’ overall contractual sovereignty (including a fee freeze from 2025 in case of non-agreement) were ultimately eliminated. The fact that social insurance will be able to conclude individual contracts with doctors in the future has been deleted.
This was a horror scenario for the medical association; She had talked about ending the social partnership, wanted to launch a multi-million dollar protest campaign and threatened a no-contract situation.
Doctors lose the right to veto this
The medical representatives could not get their way with their desire to retain their veto power. In the future, it will no longer be able to oppose personnel plans and the establishment of new outpatient clinics. However, it was also deleted that in the future doctors will have to prescribe standard active ingredients instead of certain medicines. This also led to violent protests from chamber representatives.
There are also changes in the assessment committee for expensive new medicines. Here the staff composition was changed. More experts will be represented than originally planned.
Source: Krone
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