Germany: empowerment to boost product access
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Patients with healthcare insurance should play an increasing role in what services they can have access to and how to spend their money. So says German industry association BVMed, which in its New Year statement made a request that the coming years should see the development of an open and genuine forum on how patients should be empowered take more responsibility over precisely what treatments and services their health insurance contributions should provide.