Lottes, Matthäus
Grodd, Marlon
Grabenhenrich, Linus
Wolkewitz, Martin
Funding for this research was provided by:
Robert Koch-Institut
Article History
Received: 28 March 2024
Accepted: 26 August 2024
First Online: 23 September 2024
Declarations
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: The data used in this study are subject to the obligation to transmit data during the year in accordance with Sect. 21 (3b) of the Hospital Remuneration Act. Accordingly, all hospitals that are subject to the data transmission obligation pursuant to Sect. 21 of the Hospital Remuneration Act are obliged to transmit their inpatient billing data to the Institute for the Hospital Remuneration System GmbH (InEK) on June 15, October 15 and January 15 of each year. The data are made available by the hospitals for the purpose of review in accordance with Sect. 24 of the Hospital Financing Act and for supplementary analyses for the further development of the remuneration systems. InEK provides public access to these data via its InEK Data Browser (). For the purpose of this study, the corresponding author requested the data directly from the InEK. The evaluation results were provided to the corresponding author with the consent of the Federal Ministry of Health. The ethics approval of this study and need for informed consent were deemed unnecessary according to Sect. 21 (3b) of the Hospital Remuneration Act; hence, they were not needed for this study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.