Innovation in European healthcare – what can Sweden learn? - LIF

Role of important Government and Official Bodies in the
German Healthcare System III
Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss (G-BA / Federal Joint Committee)
• G-BA is the main decision-making body within the SHI under the level
of the ministry of health and the parliament - formulating and
implementing which services will be provided and under which
conditions
• G-BA has wide-ranging regulatory powers
– Assessment of new methods of medical diagnosis and treatment
– Decision, if and what added benefit a new innovative drug has to offer and under what circumstances
it may be prescribed for reimbursement by the statutory health insurance funds
– Issues the directives that are necessary for safeguarding medical service provision
– Recommendations on requirements regarding the content of disease management programs
– Issues directives governing quality assurance in the ambulatory, inpatient and inter-sectoral spheres
• Since 2004 national groups representing patients were given the right
to file applications and to participate in the consultations of the G-BA
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