ABSTRACT
Medical centers were introduced into the system of statutory health insurance as contractual service providers by the Statutory Health Insurance Modernization Act of 2003. Since 2004 in addition to accredited physicians, authorized physicians, and authorized medical facilities, approved medical centers can also participate in offering contractual care. The introduction of medical centers was intended to permit a new form of patient management that was considered to have the advantage of facilitating close cooperation between the different medical specialties as well as non-medical health care providers.
Subject(s)
Ambulatory Care/legislation & jurisprudence , Delivery of Health Care/legislation & jurisprudence , Hospital Administration/legislation & jurisprudence , Models, Organizational , Patient Care Team/legislation & jurisprudence , GermanyABSTRACT
The discussion on circumcision for children, as a ritual as well as a medically indicated intervention, is still being carried out as in the past in a very emotional and not always rational manner. The attempt to criminalize circumcision, even the surgical treatment of phimosis, causes confusion not only for the parents of these children but also for physicians and in particular pediatricians and general practitioners.
