Wer und wie wird gefördert? Eine kritische Analyse der KHG-Investitionsdaten
The financing of capital costs of German hospitals has been subject of political debate for many years. This issue is gaining in importance since the German federal states do not fulfill their legal obligation to fund the capital costs of hospitals sufficiently. The main data source for the states’ capital funding is the statistic of the consortium of the supreme health care authorities of the German federal states (AOLG). This article contributes to the current debate in two ways: First, it reveals deviations between the AOLG statistic and other data sources on public capital funding for hospitals. This article compares the AOLG statistic for the period 2010 to 2016 with (i) funding data of the ministries of health of the German states obtained from a survey, and (ii) target and actual expenditures for investment promotion from the German states’ budget. Second, this article provides analyses on capital funding by hospital ownership types and it sheds light on the role of special capital funding (“Sonderförderung”) in addition to regular capital funding according to the hospital financing act (KHG).
Augurzky, B. and A. Pilny (2019), Wer und wie wird gefördert? Eine kritische Analyse der KHG-Investitionsdaten. In Jürgen Klauber, Max Geraedts, Jörg Friedrich and Jürgen Wasem (Hrsg.), Krankenhaus-Report 2019 - Das digitale Krankenhaus. Heidelberg: Springer, 185-197.