The functional funding of diabetes care in the Netherlands differs significantly from that in Germany. Here in the Netherlands, we work with a chain-DBC (Diagnosis-Treatment Combination). Germany has merely a single payment for the costs of cooperation and maintains the payments of operations as they were. Both payment methods are significantly successful. But which method is best? The answer to this question was highlighted at the Ninth Congress of the International Network of Integrated Care that took place on November 6 and 5 in Vienna. Click here to find more information about the tenth congress in Finland, June 17 and 18, 2010.
Recent developments of the financing of disease management programs in Germany, Holland and other countries are discusses in more detail there. Are you interested to present a paper during this congress? Please click here, read the call for abstracts and submit an abstract.
Professor of Public Health with a special interest in the Structure and Functioning of the Health Services
Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care
University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
email: a.j.p.schrijvers@umcutrecht.nl
tel: +31 (0)88 755 93 59 