Despite the budget deficit, Social Insurance was able to expand health care in 2024. 41 New primary care units were established and thus increased the total number of 56 to 97 and 39 new cash agencies created. However, the maximum 200 doctor’s points promised by former Chancellor Karl Nehammer were clearly missed.
A conflict recently flared up between the medical association and ÖGK chairman Peter McDonald. He had asked for a solidarity contribution of the doctors and today strengthened that the medical community of the solidarity community of the insured person had to be hosted and that a contribution had to be made in the next two years “within the meaning of restraint to the reimbursements”.
“We are confronted with very challenging times in the next two years. We not only have to lower the shortage, but we have to form reserves for the future,” said McDonald. The ÖGK expects a minus of around 900 million euros this year.
Doctors attack cash: “Ögk Mission”
For their part, the doctors talk about an “Ögk mission” that should not be accused of them. The doctors would do a lot by “dampening the consequences of the devastating cost substances with a growing population with the highest personal commitment”. Only 15 percent of the general ÖGK editions would be eliminated on medical services. McDonald and the doctors now want to explain this conflict under four eye. He was invited to a dialogue, McDonald said.
He and the chairman of the Conference of Socialzekerheiden institutions, Claudia Neumayer -Stickler, are satisfied with the balance of social security in 2024. In this way, 41 primary care units (PVE) could be established and seven existing existing existing. The total number of 56 to 97 at the end of last year.
In 2024, 34 new individual planning were opened and seven existing group practices were expanded. A total of 39 new cash agencies were established, six of them in general medicine and the remaining in the field of specialists. Most new specialized areas were not available for neurology, ophthalmology and (child and youth) psychiatry.
A maximum of 200 new cash registers were promised by politics. In the previous year, the Turquoise-Green government burst of the fact that in just a few weeks the triple interested parties for the bonus of the money practice made available by politics. In March 2024, the “Kroon” revealed that these figures were not very useful. Two editors were able to register for cash offices without any problems and were even contacted by the cash register to clarify further data.
Source: Krone
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