title: [G-DRG version 2007: a short overview].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Universitäts-Hautklinik, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. marcel.mueller@uniklinik-freiburg.de
authors.forename: Marcel L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Forschner
authors.forename: Thomas A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Luger
authors.forename: Rainer
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rompel
authors.forename: Norbert
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Roeder
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hensen
mesh_terms: 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*