There is the example of a resident doctor who is said to have personally read the insurance cards of his patients into the computer. According to the public prosecutor's office, to manipulate the date and bill fake practice visits to health insurance companies. Doctor appointments that never happened. The doctor is said to have practiced this scam for at least six years. Presumed damage: more than three million euros. It was blown because he often asked the health insurance companies...
According to a survey by the health insurance company KKH, Bavarian fathers bring up the rear when it comes to caring for sick children. In the first half of the year, they accounted for 19.5 percent of the children's sick days, as the KKH announced on Monday. This is a decrease of 1.2 percentage points and the lowest value of the 15 federal states examined. The KKH had not submitted any data for Bremen because the number of cases was...
As far as is known, homeopathy's recipe for success is the mini-mini-dose, the big effect on the subtle and small. In this respect, it is actually quite fitting that the few millions that the statutory health insurance companies spend every year on these miracle globules are not at all significant in view of the several hundred billion euros in healthcare services. In the annual balance, homeopathic drugs appear in the blink of an eye, so homeopathic doses are not really...
There is the intensive care specialist at the district clinic in Ebersberg near Munich, who said, "we are simply under maximum stress". There is the caregiver from Essen who reported stress, anxiety and tiredness. There is the nurse in Munich, who at the end of 2021 did not have to work on Christmas Eve for the first time in three years. The pandemic has demanded a lot from nurses and medical professionals alike. First there was applause from the balconies,...
A scalpel used to cost three euros, now it costs ten. Overall, the Bavarian hospitals recorded an increase in material costs of eight percent, and energy costs have doubled. "The cost explosion is hitting the clinics with full force," complains the managing director of the Bavarian Hospital Society, Roland Engehausen. He therefore calls for inflation compensation of a four percent surcharge on all hospital bills as emergency aid. Otherwise there is a risk of "uncontrolled hospital deaths," warns the managing...
Are children born earlier in Germany because it makes financial sense? The hospital is too often about money - and not about health. source site
According to a health insurance evaluation, women in Bavaria use the pill as a contraceptive method less frequently than they did almost ten years ago. If doctors still prescribed the pill to 56 percent of young women in Bavaria in 2013, it was only 40 percent last year, according to an analysis published by AOK Bayern on Monday. The evaluation relates only to those insured by health insurance in Bavaria. Around 4.6 million of the 13 million inhabitants of Bavaria...
Whether cancer drugs, painkillers or antidepressants - more than 250 drugs are no longer available in Germany. Even everyday medicines are missing in many places. The bottlenecks are the result of a dangerous development.Of Michael SchwinnNow you touch it yourself, the sticky juice. "We just have to work on the taste," says Björn Schittenhelm, the owner of the Alamannen Apotheke in Holzgerlingen. After all, it's not entirely unimportant, he says. Because the juice is for sick children, a fever reducer...
Whether cancer drugs, painkillers or antidepressants - more than 250 drugs are no longer available in Germany. Even everyday medicines are missing in many places. The bottlenecks are the result of a dangerous development. source site
According to an evaluation by the health insurance company DAK-Gesundheit, sick leave on the job increased sharply in the first half of the year. There were 788 days off for every 100 employees, 115 days more than in the same period of the previous year. The main reasons for the increase are respiratory diseases. Losses due to the corona virus increased to 64 days of absence per 100 insured persons - more than five times as many as in the...
