In October 2024, Boris Augurzky handed over the management of the health economic department to the next generation and is now still available to the RWI as Senior Policy Fellow, having been chief of the department from August 2003 to September 2024. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Managing Director of hcb GmbH and Chairman of the Board of the Rhoenn Foundation.

His work focuses on the inpatient healthcare sector, issues relating to the reform of the healthcare system and the evaluation of policy measures. Among other things, he is the author of the annual Hospital Rating Report.

Boris Augurzky is member of the “Government Commission for a Modern and Needs-based Hospital Care System” of the Federal Ministry of Health, the Committee for Health Economics of the Verein für Socialpolitik, the Advisory Board of the German Managed Care Association (BMC), of the Initiative for Quality Medicine (IQM) and of the BARMER Scientific Institute, as well as a member of the Editorial Board of the "Hospital Report" of the Scientific Institute of the AOK (WIdO) and the Council for Health and Medical Ethics of the Diocese of Essen.