Standardisierte Kostenberechnungen im deutschen Gesundheitswesen

Bericht der Arbeitsgruppe Standardkosten des Ausschusses ökonomische Evaluation der dggo

authored by

Stefan Scholz, Janine Biermann-Stallwitz, Christian Brettschneider, Oliver Damm, Antje Freytag, Wolfgang Greiner, Andrea Icks, Hans Helmut König, Christian Krauth, Alexander Kuhlmann, Christopher Kunigkeit, Joseph Montalbo, Sarah Mostardt, Axel Mühlbacher, Anja Neumann, Silke Neusser, Thomas Plagemann, Anja Schwalm, Bernhard Ultsch, Jürgen Wasem, Julian Witte

Abstract

Background and aim Costing is a crucial component of health economic evaluations, but there is a wide variation in the approaches of calculating costs in the German health care system. This series of articles aims to propose unified costing methods for the different health care sectors while the current article is addressing overarching problems across all sectors. Methods The working group Standardized Costing within the committee Economic Evaluation of the German Society of Health Economics (dggö) discussed the current problems in the context of costing for health economic evaluation and developed agreed, unified costing approaches for the different health care sectors. The group consisted of researchers from universities and decision-makers in the German health care system and developed the recommendations at three personal meetings and additional telephone conferences. Preliminary results were presented at the 11th annual meeting of the dggö. Results The current paper presents the recommendations regarding perspective, price-resources framework, study types, cost components, data sources, adjustment of cost data over time or cross-country, and uncertainty in cost calculations. Additionally, the general structure of the four following articles on health care sector-specific costing is presented.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Insurance Business Administration

External Organisation(s)

Bielefeld University
University of Duisburg-Essen
Universität Hamburg
Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
University Hospital Düsseldorf
Hannover Medical School (MHH)
Institut für Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen (IQWiG)
Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences
GlaxoSmithKline GmbH and Co. KG

Type

Article

Journal

Gesundheitsokonomie und Qualitatsmanagement

Volume

25

Pages

52-59

No. of pages

8

ISSN

1432-2625

Publication date

19.02.2020

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Health Policy

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1107-0665 (Access: Closed)