The total cost of the 2084 hospitals in Germany in 2009 amounted to a total of 77.1 billion euros, 4.5 billion euros, or 6.1 percent more than the year before. This was announced by the Federal Statistical Office in March 2011.
took Specifically, personnel costs by 5.7 percent to 45.8 billion euros, operating expenses
much as 7.0 percent to 29.3 billion euros . This increases the importance of purchasing in the hospital continued to rise. Means of buying groups or purchasing their own associations do raise the potential of hospitals in purchasing. Process improvement, standardization and streamlining suppliers are other options in the professional hospital purchasing.
are also included in the total costs, the costs of the training facilities and the cost of the training fund in the amount of € 1.6 billion, the expenditure for inpatient services (ambulance, scientific research and teaching) of 9.9 billion euros and the cost of purely inpatient hospital care, from 67.2 billion euros.
A total of 17.8 million in 2009 patients treated in German hospitals, 300,000 more than in 2008. The average inpatient cost per case of treatment were € 3772 in Germany, 4.5 percent higher than the year before.
The lowest inpatient costs had, according to the Federal Statistical Office of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (3,371 €), the highest Hamburg (4524 €).
The German Hospital Federation (DKG) sees the numbers a sign of the enormous cost pressure, the burden on the clinics.
"Now it's official: The hospitals had to face enormous costs in 2009. The assessment of health care and politics, the clinics by the price increases would have financial resources available for free, is refuted, "DCT-chief executive Georg Baum said in Berlin today. The hospitals from 2011 imposed measures for savings and the continued cost pressures compound the burden on hospitals. For the terms of the hygiene legislation and improve staffing requirements would need further asked the hospitals financial support.
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