title: [Unconventional medical procedures--a contribution to cost control?].
abstract: Firstly, it is explained that doctors, in accordance with the "Bundesmantelvertrag" and the so-called "Wissenschaftsklausel" of private insurance companies, are required to attend to cost-saving treatment and prescriptions, and that these regulations are also valid with regard to unconventional medical methods and medications. Further, it is exemplified by quotations, how some adherents of unconventional methods assert excessive pretension towards the general public as well as in medical periodicals. Accordingly, high fees are asked, which is also illustrated by some examples. Finally, users as well as non-users of disputed medical methods are called upon to occupy themselves more intensively with these problems and not to leave their solution to insurance bodies and the courts.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Oepen
mesh_terms: D000529:Complementary Therapies; D003363:Cost Control / Q000639:trends; D005251:Fees, Medical / Q000639:trends*; D005860:Germany, West; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans
vernacular_title: Unkonventionelle medizinische Verfahren--ein Beitrag zur Kostendämpfung?