COVID-19: Health minister Spahn enacts law to support and relieve hospitals

Once again, federal health minister Jens Spahn provided a new law at record speed.

The law (COVID-19-Krankenhausentlastungsgesetz) aims at avoiding Reimbursement losses and hospital deficits and to ensure the liquidity of hospitals in the short term. 

Amongst others, the law contains the following measures:

• Planable surgeries, admissions, surgical procedures or other operations should be postponed. Hospitals receive a lump sum of €560 for each free hospital bed.
• The provisional care allowance (“Pflegeentgeltwert”, to ensure cash-flow of hospitals) will be increased around 38 Euros to 185 Euros per day.

• On top of that, a nationwide bonus of 50,000 Euros will be paid for additional ICUs with artificial respiration possibilities.
• For additional costs, in particular, for personal protective equipment, hospitals will receive a supplement of 50 Euros per patient (for all patients) between 03/01 and 09/30/2020 (which can be extended and increased if necessary).
• In future, payers will have to pay invoices within 5 days to increase the liquidity of hospitals (valid until 12/31/2020).

For a detailed analysis of the law and the impact on your company and for your customers and its measures during the Corona crisis, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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