

The delegates spoke out in favor of social security in Munich and voting right of the German Medical Association in the Federal Joint Committee.
There is an urgent need for improvement. ”With this, the President of the Bavarian Medical Association, Dr. med. Max Kaplan, not the renovated, large conference room of the Medical Association, which was completed in time for the 70th Bavarian Doctors' Day. It was about the draft law on the supply structure law, the decisive deliberations of which are now imminent. Kaplan emphasized that there was still the possibility of influencing the deliberations in the interests of the medical profession, "and that is why we should use the Bavarian Doctors' Day to bring in appropriate applications."
These board motions, which were approved by large majority by the medical convention delegates, are tough when you consider that they come from the more federal state of Bavaria - in particular, the Federal Medical Association (BÄK ) in areas that were previously reserved for the statutory health insurance contract partners in and outside the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA). "We are of the opinion, especially in terms of quality assurance, that the Chamber should be at the table here," said Kaplan, who is also BÄK Vice-President.
For example, the Federal Medical Association should be just as compulsory for the new regulation of outpatient specialist medical care in Section 116 b SGB V like the state medical associations are involved in the implementation on site. Kaplan: “We are calling for contract solution through four-sided contracts. Uniform quality standards in outpatient and inpatient areas are important. In any case, it should be contractual solution and not solution by the G-BA. ”
The Bavarian Medical Association also spoke out in favor of transferring the definition competence to the German Medical Association
- in the case of regulations under the federal umbrella contract between the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds on qualifications that are required for the provision of special contract medical services (Section 135, Paragraph 2),
- when determining the requirements for the qualification of new doctors Examination and treatment methods by the G-BA (Section 135, Paragraph 1, Clause 1, No. 2) as well as
- in the case of guideline resolutions of the G-BA on quality assurance for statutory medical care and approved hospitals (Section 137, Paragraph . 1 sentence 1 no. 2).
This shift is necessary in order to be able to determine uniform qualification level.
The delegates spoke out in favor of social security in Munich and voting right of the German Medical Association in the Federal Joint Committee.
There is an urgent need for improvement. ”With this, the President of the Bavarian Medical Association, Dr. med. Max Kaplan, not the renovated, large conference room of the Medical Association, which was completed in time for the 70th Bavarian Doctors' Day. It was about the draft law on the supply structure law, the decisive deliberations of which are now imminent. Kaplan emphasized that there was still the possibility of influencing the deliberations in the interests of the medical profession, "and that is why we should use the Bavarian Doctors' Day to bring in appropriate applications."
These board motions, which were approved by large majority by the medical convention delegates, are tough when you consider that they come from the more federal state of Bavaria - in particular, the Federal Medical Association (BÄK ) in areas that were previously reserved for the statutory health insurance contract partners in and outside the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA). "We are of the opinion, especially in terms of quality assurance, that the Chamber should be at the table here," said Kaplan, who is also BÄK Vice-President.
For example, the Federal Medical Association should be just as compulsory for the new regulation of outpatient specialist medical care in Section 116 b SGB V like the state medical associations are involved in the implementation on site. Kaplan: “We are calling for contract solution through four-sided contracts. Uniform quality standards in outpatient and inpatient areas are important. In any case, it should be contractual solution and not solution by the G-BA. ”
The Bavarian Medical Association also spoke out in favor of transferring the definition competence to the German Medical Association
- in the case of regulations under the federal umbrella contract between the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds on qualifications that are required for the provision of special contract medical services (Section 135, Paragraph 2),
- when determining the requirements for the qualification of new doctors Examination and treatment methods by the G-BA (Section 135, Paragraph 1, Clause 1, No. 2) as well as
- in the case of guideline resolutions of the G-BA on quality assurance for statutory medical care and approved hospitals (Section 137, Paragraph . 1 sentence 1 no. 2).
This shift is necessary in order to be able to determine uniform qualification level.It must be ensured that the specialist qualification also meets the requirements for providing the corresponding contract medical services; In this way, when new examination and treatment methods are introduced, in-service qualifications including transitional provisions are to be guaranteed.
Responsibility of the BÄK at federal level must be recognized for these new areas of activity. Logical consequence of the whole: According to the ideas of the Bavarian Medical Association, the decision-making body of the G-BA should in future include two members appointed by the German Medical Association. One could not be satisfied with the current involvement of the BÄK in the decision-making of the G-BA. "We are heard, but we have nothing to say," Kaplan summed it up. The medical associations and the BÄK provided neutral representation of the medical profession at the federal level, according to the board motion. The health insurance bank would have to be increased by two members for reasons of parity.
As if this were not enough in terms of competence gain, Kaplan also demanded that the BÄK should be involved in the future if - as provided for in the draft of the Supply Structure Act - the partners of the federal shell contract agree on catalog of services that can be delegated may be performed on an outpatient basis by members of the medical professions.
The 70th Bavarian Doctors' Conference also spoke clearly on other issues. The delegates called for the practice fee to be abolished, as it no longer had any control function in outpatient medicine. The function of the family doctor as guide in the health system is circumvented by subsequently issuing referral slips. The expansions planned for the electronic health card should not be introduced under any circumstances. Both the online data comparison and the central storage of patient illness data would involve considerable security risks.
Thomas Gerst