Too many operations: Thomas Heiniger is

Shortly before his departure from the government Thomas Heiniger (FDP) a change in the law, the. The health Director shall propose clauses that would allow the Canton of strong interventions in the public hospital market. So, the government could provide the hospitals an upper limit for the number of treatments and the Exceed sanction. By reducing, for example, the tariffs, the Obtaining of second opinions, prescribes, or the purchase of large equipment prohibits.

With the amount of restriction Heiniger takes a proposal of the expert group, prepared on behalf of the Federal Council measures for cost containment in health care. Specifically, before Heiniger, the Canton makes the hospitals a percentage of the preset to how much the number of inpatient cases must rise or must fall.

A Hirslanden-Clause?

The lever, the screw tightened, is list the the Hospital. With this, the Canton granted the power contracts to the individual hospitals and 55 percent of the treatment in the follow-up costs in the basic insurance. In 2022, the government will provide a new hospital list. In view of this, Heiniger wants to tighten now, the hospital law. The current list dates back from 2012. At that time, the clinic was taken into account Hirslanden new, the annual Canton of contribution to you, amounts to around 80 million. The left parties were of the opinion that it does not need this private clinic, in order to ensure supply.

Meanwhile, even the liberal-minded Heiniger is of the view that there is in the Canton of Zurich an Oversupply. This means that too much surgery and is treated. "The new law gives the government the different levers to react."

On the question of whether the article was on Hirslanden coined, differs from Heiniger.

One of these levers would be suitable, the clinic Hirslanden again deleted from the list. So it is said in the law: "In the case of Excesses in the choice (of hospitals, Anm. the Red.) on the criterion of the greatest non-profit orientation of the company is to be parked." Hirslanden is known as one of a listed international hospital group. On the question of whether the article was on Hirslanden coined, differs from Heiniger and says that all these things are only possibilities, and no measures adopted. In addition, a wide consultation process taking place now. "I assume that the template is changed."

but the fact is that Heiniger has changed in the new hospital list, for which he vorspurt, its focus. "Competition is only to play, where it exerts good effect, otherwise it needs to combat it," he says. And he also says who he wants to exclude: "those Who want to make quick money in health care, it does not belong on the list."

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Created: 21.03.2019, 23:58 PM