Frank Heimig

Frank Heimig (* 1965 in Idar-Oberstein ) is a German doctor and medical controller. Since 2001 he has been managing director of the Institute for the Hospital Remuneration System (InEK) based in Siegburg .

Life

In 1984 he graduated from high school in Birkenfeld . This was followed by a degree in human medicine at Saarland University (UdS) in Homburg and at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland . He completed his practical year (PJ) at Trinity College Dublin , Ireland . This was followed by a degree in computer science at the UdS in Saarbrücken.

From 1991 to 1996 he worked as a doctor in internship (AiP) and assistant doctor in the clinic for radiation diagnostics and as an assistant doctor as well as in the clinic for internal medicine of the communal clinic in Saarbrücken and completed his training as a specialist in radiology under the head doctor Günter Brill .

From September 1, 1996, the clinic management under Susann Breßlein appointed him to a staff position in the management as head of medical controlling at the Saarbrücken clinic.

In 1997 Heimig did his doctorate in medicine at the UdS with a dissertation in medical informatics.

From February 1998 he has been the spokesman for the DRG benchmarking group of 13 large municipal hospitals and from January 2000 he will be responsible for the project and director of the Institute for Medical-Economic Consulting (IMC). Together with the German Hospital Association (DKG) and the State Hospital Associations , the institute supported the introduction of diagnosis- related case groups (DRG) in around 900 German hospitals. From July 2001 he has been the general manager of the institute and is head of medical economics in the communal West Palatinate Clinic in Kaiserslautern . From April 2002 he will be appointed a member of the expert group of the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) under Ulla Schmidt in accordance with Section 17b (7) Hospital Financing Act (KHG) .

As of July 2002, Heimig becomes managing director of the German DRG institute: InEK gGmbH at the suggestion of DKG President Jörg Robbers . Through the case flat rate law (FPG) of April 23, 2002 and the hospital fees law (KHEntgG) of April 23, 2002, the G-DRG system introduced in Germany on January 1, 2013 is transformed into a case flat rate system and has since been used for billing prices for individual treatment types of the individual treatment cases are used.

The InEK under Heimig is also advising other countries on the development of DRGs in Ireland, Switzerland and the China Health Economics Institute (CHEI) in the People's Republic of China.

Heimig is married to an Irish nurse and has two children.

Web links

• Portrait: Master builder Heimig (from: Die GesundheitsWirtschaft 6/2014)