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Introduction to German hospital reimbursement system (DRG)

This webinar gives an introduction to how the German reimbursement system for in-patient hospital procedures operates. It will provide a brief description of the core-elements of the annual updating cycle and the different methods to create / change reimbursement including:

  • Changing / creating a DRG

  • Applying for a procedure code

  • The Role of the add-on payment (ZE)

  • The NUB process

The seminar is tailored for those of you who want to establish a broad understanding of how the different options that exist in the German DRG system for in-patient hospital care.

Dr Martin Braun is a physician and expert for the health care system. His specialty is the health policy strategy for the reimbursement of hospital services.

He studied Medicine at the University of Heidelberg. He worked as a clinician in a hospital for 10 years and specialised in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Diabetology. In the course of his postgraduate studies at the University of Heidelberg/Mannheim, he received a master’s degree in Health Care Management. Furthermore, he completed additional training in Quality Management in accordance with the requirements of the German Medical Association. Until 2000, he worked as a Consultant in the Ansbach Clinical Centre. In 2001, he moved to the German Hospital Federation in Düsseldorf, where he was the Assistant Head of the Medical Department. From 2003 to 2010, he was the Head of the Medical Department of the German DRG Institute (InEK GmbH) in Siegburg, where he was responsible for the development of the German DRG System. He, simultaneously, supervised the international collaboration, for example, with Switzerland and Cyprus. At the same time, he taught at several Colleges, e.g. Health Care Management Faculty at the University of Applied Sciences in Krefeld.

In January 2011, he founded a consulting company. He has been working as a Health Care Management Expert at a national and international level since that time. He advised a couple of countries, e.g. Thailand, Slovakia, Malta, Turkey and Serbia with respect to the financing of hospital services with the assistance of DRGs. Since 2012, he is consulting the Greek Ministry of Health on the introduction of a DRG System in Greece.