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During the summer, the HFMA organised a two-day meeting with German costing organisation the Institut für das Entgeltsystem im Krankenhaus (INEK) and Monitor.
INEK – which translates as the Institute for the Hospital Remuneration System – has responsibility for the whole process involved in setting prices in Germany. It maintains the diagnosis-related group (DRG) currency, sets the coding rules and produces the grouping software that assigns cases to DRGs based on codes. It also defines the costing approach, produces costing guidance and oversees hospital activity and patient-level cost data collections, some of which is from all hospitals and some from a sample. With this cost data, it sets tariff prices for all hospital inpatient activity.
The London meeting built on the association’s 2012 workshop, bringing together healthcare costing academics from a number of European countries to discuss approaches to costing. Germany is widely seen as a global leader in patient-level costing.
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