Top clinics in Berlin threaten to check the Senate Hospital Policy policy

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Berlin: Private Kliniken wollen Krankenhauspolitik gerichtlich prüfen Die Spitzen privater, frei-gemeinnütziger und konfessioneller Kliniken in Berlin erwägen, die Krankenhauspolitik des Senats gerichtlich überprüfen zu lassen. Sie sind unzufrieden mit Sonderzahlungen zugunsten des landeseigenen Vivantes-Konzerns. Die betroffenen Kliniken, darunter Diakonie, Sana, die DRK-Kliniken und das Jüdische Krankenhaus, prüfen seit Monaten die Erfolgsaussichten einer Klage vor dem Verwaltungsgericht. Ziel ist es, feststellen zu lassen, ob die Verteilung der Mittel für Berlins Krankenhäuser gegen Wettbewerbsrechte verstößt und die Vivantes-Kliniken unzulässig bevorzugt werden. Im Rahmen der geplanten Reform des Gesundheitssektors, die Bundesgesundheitsminister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) vorschlägt, strebt man eine bessere Regulierung des Sektors an. …
Berlin: Private clinics want to examine hospital policy in court. The tops of private, freelance and denominational clinics in Berlin consider to have the hospital policy of the Senate checked in court. They are dissatisfied with special payments in favor of the state-owned Vivantes group. The affected clinics, including Diakonie, Sana, the DRK clinics and the Jewish hospital, have been examining the success of a lawsuit before the administrative court for months. The aim is to have determining whether the distribution of funds for Berlin's hospitals violates competition rights and the Vivantes clinics are inadmissible. As part of the planned reform of the health sector, which Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) suggests, one strives for better regulation of the sector. ... (Symbolbild/MB)

Berlin: Private clinics want to check hospital policy in court

consider the top, freelance and denominational clinics in Berlin, consider having the hospital policy of the Senate checked. They are dissatisfied with special payments in favor of the state-owned Vivantes group. The affected clinics, including Diakonie, Sana, the DRK clinics and the Jewish hospital, have been examining the success of a lawsuit before the administrative court for months. The aim is to have determining whether the distribution of funds for Berlin's hospitals violates competition rights and the Vivantes clinics are inadmissible.

As part of the planned reform of the health sector, which suggests Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD), you strive for better regulation of the sector. It is foreseeable that some clinics will close.

The preparations for the lawsuit are supported by around 20 hospitals in Berlin, with the DRK clinics taking on the leading role. The board of directors of the clinics involved should have a last conversation with health senator Ina Czyborra (SPD) on Monday before deciding on further steps.

The inpatient care in Berlin is based on two principles: the variety of sponsors and dual funding. The variety of sponsors means that the federal states have to largely promote all recognized hospitals in terms of care. In addition to the state-owned institutions, denominational, freelance and private clinics are also supported. The dual financing stipulates that the countries are responsible for technology and buildings while the health insurance companies pay for personnel and medication.

In the corona crisis, all hospitals were financially under pressure because regular lucrative operations were canceled for months. According to a household decision from last year, Vivantes received another 93 million euros in addition to the 260 million euros already promised to compensate for the compensation of panda mutual losses. It is believed that this could be one of the allegations in a possible legal dispute. It remains to be seen how courts evaluate the compatibility of these payments with the EU competition rules.

At the beginning of 2022, representatives of private, denominational and freely beneficial hospitals had already expressed their concern in a fire letter to the then health senator Ulrike Gote (Greens) that the value of the sponsoring variety in Berlin was not recognized. In the letter it was criticized that the coalition agreement focuses primarily on the Charité and Vivantes and hide the other hospital operators.

In the conversation with Senator Czyborra, it will probably only be around the Charité on the edge, since in contrast to Vivantes, this also receives funds for research.

A total of Berlin has almost 60 planned tendrils with around 23,000 beds. With 18,000 employees and almost 6,000 beds, Vivantes is the largest municipal clinic chain in Germany. It comprises eight hospitals, 18 nursing homes, an outpatient service and a rehabilitation facility.