Spending for private patients five times larger according to a latest study of the Scientific Institute of the PKV Association are the costs for laboratory services in recent years enormously increased. Compared to the statutory health insurance private insurers spend therefore disproportionate, in 2008 there were up to five times more. Reason for this was an outdated fees, allowing doctors a lavish single billing for laboratory services. The private-krankenversicherung.de Internet portal reported about the background. The statutory health insurance provides enough disadvantages compared to a private.

So patients get a doctor’s appointment later, on average spend more time in the waiting room and find a treating physician as privately less quickly. The statutory health insurance but have a distinct advantage: carry significantly lower labor costs, for their insured. The reason for the lower spending is according the PKV Association is that the samples of Patients often sent in the photo lab are than those of Privatversicherten. Here doctors afford to grant the order itself, and to investigate the blood in the own laboratory. An imbalance which should be countered, according to Managing Director Stefan Reker, through a change in the law. The economic losses for the private health insurance companies grow also.

While about 100 euros were calculated in 2004 per laboratory performance, there were 126 Euro 2008 already. During the same period, the average expenditures of the legal offices from 24 to just 26 euro. Total 2008 1.1 billion euro of laboratory costs were due for the whole of the private insurers in. More information: news.private-krankenversicherung.de/… GELD.de GmbH Lisa Neumann