Reimbursement and prices

  • Number of applications for individual reimbursement of medicines in 2010

    | 14 June 2011 |

    In 2010, we reached decisions in a total of 144,324 individual reimbursement applications against 138,714 in 2009, corresponding to an increase of 4 %. The figure breaks down to approx. 96,000 applications for single reimbursement (about 3 % fewer than in 2009), approx. 34,000 applications for reimbursement for the chronically ill (about 30 % more than in 2009), approx. 12,000 applications for reimbursement for the terminally ill (about 7 % more than in 2009) and approx. 2,800 applications for increased reimbursement (about 14 % more than in 2009).

  • Annual report of the Reimbursement Committee 2010

    | 23 March 2011 |

    In 2010, the Reimbursement Committee reviewed 20 applications for general reimbursement and 1719 applications for individual reimbursement.