US EditionFamily Doctors Refuse to Pay for Visits to a Doctor
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The employer's move to introduce a new fee for medical visits has little counter-love among family doctors and trade unions. The idea is "unsocial" and "unthinkable". Instead, better patient control is needed.[more]]>
The BDA managing director Steffen Kampeter spoke out for the introduction of a contact fee during the doctor's visit. This should avoid "doctors' hopping".
Despite the bureaucratic effort, calls for a comeback of a practical fee become louder. In order to stabilize the excess health insurance contributions, employers propose a new payment for doctor visits. However, there should be a central difference.
The Federal Association of German Employers' Associations proposes a new fee for the visit to the doctor in order to reduce the costs in the health care system.
Increasing additional contributions, growing expenditures: German health care is under pressure. Employers' associations now want to make unnecessary visits to doctors more difficult by means of a »contact fee«.
The employers' association BDA calls for the introduction of a so-called contact fee for medical visits in order to contain the doctor's hopping of many patients. The aim is also to better control the patients.
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