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The healthcare systems of both German states are integrated: what will happen with the GDR’s polyclinic system?

After Germany’s political reunification, the integration of the two German health care systems is on the agenda. As an institute located in Berlin, IGES is predestined to assume a leading role in the transformation of the GDR’s polyclinic system in the state of Brandenburg so that it conforms to the “health center” concept.

This is also the time of the major statutory health insurance (GKV) reform which ends the classification of citizens into different social systems according to their individual status while, at the same time, introducing the citizen’s right to choose their own health insurance provider. IGES plays a decisive role in the development of the first step of the risk structure compensation scheme (RSA).