Extrabudgetary ('NUB') payments: A gateway for introducing new medical devices into the German inpatient reimbursement system?

Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 119 - 133
Published: Jun 1, 2010
Abstract
Most new medical devices in Germany are first introduced in the inpatient sector. The key hurdles to marketing them are thus to ensure their inclusion in the German Diagnosis-Related Group (G-DRG) system and to bridge the financial gap in the interim. In 2005, a system of extrabudgetary payments was introduced to bridge this gap and to expedite the inclusion of new technologies in the G-DRG system. The present study aims (1) to describe...
Paper Details
Title
Extrabudgetary ('NUB') payments: A gateway for introducing new medical devices into the German inpatient reimbursement system?
Published Date
Jun 1, 2010
Volume
3
Issue
2
Pages
119 - 133
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