The ÖGK expects that 900 million euros will take a shortage for 2025. From an outpatient reimbursement to the exchange of costs in hospital transport, therefore, various measures are discussed. By the end of April, the clarity has to triumph where the health insurance patients services are shortened.
After the contemplative Easter there is a budget for the hard negotiations. This applies, at least to the federal government, which must sit down immediately after the holidays to negotiate savings in the state sum of the state. In the ministries themselves, but also in health care, will be greatly shortened in the future. This also focuses on the Austrian health insurance fund (ÖGK).
“Our task is to guarantee top medicine on e-card for all people in Austria in the future, regardless of social status or income,” emphasizes Peter McDonald, as is known that the new chairman of the Ögk since the beginning of the year.
Old problems and new allocation systems
Answers to the question where the administration has been saved, you remain guilty at the cash register and a solution to the subject of Amalgamer. “It is known that I am not a fan of an ambulance costs,” explains McDonald, at least at the request of the “Krone”. Measures such as cost exchange for hospital transports must at least be discussed.
However, it has been resolved that the cash register, in addition to “measures in the administrative area”, should come for an electronic allocation system for CT and MR investigations, as the deputy ÖGK chairman Andreas Huss described. The new system would announce ÖGK doctors an electronic medical question, as well as the suspected diagnosis and the preliminary examinations of the patient. Then you look at which research is the right one for this question.
“The patient ideally receives an assignment in the next Radiology Institute, which is close to home,” said Huss. The system must be rolled out this year. In April there should also be clarity about further savings. According to McDonald, a financial consolidation package should be available at the end of the month
Source: Krone
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