Revenue compensation

The revenue balance is a technical term from the German hospital financing . It is dealt with in Section 4 of the KHEntgG .

As part of the compensation for the services provided by hospitals, budgets are agreed prospectively (i.e. in advance) between the health insurance companies and the respective hospital . It usually happens that the agreed amount of service (in number, severity (see CMI ) or type of service) does not match the amount previously negotiated. One is for the results obtained from short or excess revenues majority or reduced proceeds compensation due. This means that the hospital is only partially reimbursed or deducted for the excess or insufficient amounts provided. This is based on the consideration that the budgets agreed between the health insurance companies and the hospitals should cover both the variable costs and the fixed costs (without investments). Revenue compensation should therefore only take into account the variable costs of the hospital, so that the health insurance companies only credit the hospital with the variable costs incurred (in the case of additional revenue compensation) or subtract the variable costs that have not been incurred (in the case of reduced revenue compensation).