140 percent rule: around 12,000 fewer doctor's seats

140 percent rule: around 12,000 fewer doctor's seats

Berlin - If the controversial purchase regulation in the Statutory Health Insurance Supply Strengthening Act (GKV-VSG) comes about, around nine percent of all doctor and psychotherapist's offices nationwide are available. That has been calculated in Germany (ZI). According to this, almost 12,000 doctor and psychotherapist positions would be cut across the whole of Germany. This applies if the limit for the purchase obligation is drawn at supply rate of 140 percent, as provided for in an amendment to the VSG.

According to the ZI, the internal specialists would be most affected. About 3,100 of their seats (37 percent) could be deleted. The practices of medical and psychological psychotherapists are also disproportionately often about to be bought out. Almost 4,500 (19 percent) of them could not be reoccupied in Germany. Most practices are available in the Bavarian Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (2,291), followed by Baden-Württemberg (1,254) and North Rhine (1,440).

< p> ZI managing director Dominik von Stillfried, referring to the current data, doubted that the goal of increasing local outpatient care could be achieved with the law. “These numbers are alarming, especially in view of the growing need for care in an aging society. In addition, the outpatient treatment options are constantly increasing. If the current supply structure is reduced, there will be lack of resident doctors in the future. Avoidable hospital treatments could then increase again, ”he explained.

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