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An agreement was reached in financing negotiations: almost four percent more for outpatient care in 2025 in Germany
On September 16, 2024, the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV) and the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds (GKV-Spitzenverband) announced that they had reached an agreement in financing negotiations concerning outpatient care.
As a result, the financial resources for outpatient care will increase by almost four percent in 2025 to €1.7 billion. Thus, the tariffs for all medical and psychotherapeutic services in the German Uniform Evaluation Standard (EBM) catalog will increase by 3.85% on January 1, 2025.
In total, sickness funds are expected to spend around €49 billion on the medical treatment of their insured persons in outpatient care in 2025.
The full details in German can be found here and here.
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