[G-DRG version 2007: a short overview].
Just as in the year before, the structure and regulations of the new GDRG version 2007 was successfully agreed on a mutual basis by the national self-governing bodies in the German health care system. Although some problems in high-specialized medicine or day clinic care will remain, the current developments demonstrate once more the learning aptitude of the G-DRG-system. Some beneficial and major changes have been made in 2007, but most of them do not touch dermatology. Additional procedure-based payments have been introduced in 2007 including the parenteral administration of such expensive agents as etanercept and itraconazole. A statistical analysis of cost weights of the year 2006 versus 2007 for two university clinics suggests that in dermatology, the increasing complexity of the G-DRG system partly leads to lower cost weights. Overall in 2007 a remarkable increase of complexity and differentiation throughout the DRG-system can be identified as well as a careful expansion of procedure-based payments.
Müller
Marcel L
ML
Universitäts-Hautklinik, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. marcel.mueller@uniklinik-freiburg.de
Forschner
Andrea
A
Luger
Thomas A
TA
Rompel
Rainer
R
Roeder
Norbert
N
Hensen
Peter
P
D003880:Dermatology / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000592:standards*; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000191:economics*