New application for fair remuneration: Brandenburg's focus!

New application for fair remuneration: Brandenburg's focus!

Brandenburg brought an important application for improving pharmacological services at the Health Ministers' Conference (GMK). The majority of this application was accepted and aims to adapt the legal framework for pharmacies by the Federal Ministry of Health in Germany. This has the potential to make the remuneration for pharmaceutical services more fairly and to increase its attractiveness, such as Cityreport reported.

What are pharmaceutical services at all? These go far beyond the mere drug tax. Your goal is to improve the security and effectiveness of drug therapies. The services offered include, for example, blood pressure measurements, medication consultations for polymedication and training courses for inhalation techniques. These services should help relieve the doctors and optimize the therapies as a whole. In view of the current challenges, the industry is interested in whether these extended services can bring the urgently needed support.

financing and remuneration for pharmacies

The new services are financed from a fund that is fed by surcharges on the prices for prescription medicines. However, according to Health Minister Britta Müller, there is a risk of underfunding when expanding the claims to pharmaceutical services. This is particularly critical, since pharmacies currently bear the economic risk that services are not or not remunerated in the desired amount. Müller therefore calls for a changed structure for the remuneration of these important offers.

A two -stage remuneration model has already been introduced. Pharmacies can bill services for a budget of 150 million euros. It is guaranteed that a total remuneration is carried out with a total of low accounting, which reduces the financial burden of the pharmacists, as the pharmaceutical newspaper

new services at a glance

The pharmacies can now offer new, remunerated pharmaceutical services that have been available since the introduction of the pharmacy strengthening law in 2020. Here are the five most important new offers:

• Advanced medication advice for patients: inside with polymedication.
• pharmaceutical support according to organ transplantation.
• care under oral antitumer therapy.
• Standardized risk acquisition for high blood pressure patients: inside.
• Instruction in drug application and inhalation technology for children from six years.

The billing takes place quarterly, and pharmacists: Inside no self -disclosure must be given to the chamber of pharmacists. In order to settle services, pharmacies must be association members or have joined the framework contract. The remuneration is very differentiated: For example, extended medication advice brings in 90 euros, while the instruction in drug application is remunerated with 20 euros [cgm.com] (https://www.cgm.com/deu_de/magazin/artikel/cgm-lauer/2022/pharmaZeitischen-dienstleistungen-das-muessen-fuer-fuer-und-guetung-kissen.

The established pharmaceutical services are on an up -and -coming path and with the innovation, many pharmacies in Germany could change a lot for the positive. It remains exciting to observe how the situation will develop and whether these changes can support the health system.