DRG (Diagnosis Related Groups) hospital pilot project gets off the ground
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Twenty-seven German hospitals have signed an agreement to take part in a test scheme for the forthcoming DRG (Diagnosis Related Groups) system. The initiative comes in the wake of last month's DRG-foundation meeting between the German hospitals association (DKG), the leading group of the statutory health insurance funds (GKV) and the association of private health insurance funds (PKV).