Outpatient health care facilities conducted by physicians. Classification: years, region, type of practice ^Info

Type of practice	Year (descending)
	2002	2005	2010	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
All practices	96,169	94,599	87,066	102,208	101,932	101,674	101,274	100,799	100,693	100,509	99,658
General single practices	40,890	38,337	33,504	30,547	30,071	29,402	28,668	28,074	27,430	26,784	26,175
General group practices	7,966	8,882	9,558	9,179	9,180	9,119	9,023	8,875	8,819	8,699	8,517
Specialist single practice	38,915	37,647	33,518	31,977	31,444	31,039	30,589	30,025	29,452	28,923	28,233
Specialist group practice with       single specialization	6,895	7,802	8,553	8,287	8,167	8,035	7,978	8,064	7,985	7,948	7,756
Specialist interdisciplinary       group practices	500	668	797	673	639	642	646	391	365	348	322
Cross area group practices Info	1,003	1,263	1,136	904	808	772	734	698	666	639	613
Psychologic psychotherapeutic       individual practices	.	.	.	20,021	20,953	21,788	22,606	23,593	24,777	25,946	26,809
Psychologic psychotherapeutic       group practices	.	.	.	592	638	837	982	1,024	1,140	1,159	1,168
Mixed medical psychologic       psychotherapeutic group       practices	.	.	.	28	32	40	48	55	59	63	65
Medical service centres	X	341	1,654	2,156	2,490	2,821	3,173	3,539	3,846	4,179	4,574

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Region	Germany	Germany Baden-Wurttemberg Bavaria Berlin Brandenburg Bremen Hamburg Hesse Mecklenburg Western Pomerania Lower Saxony North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland Saxony Saxony Anhalt Schleswig-Holstein Thuringia

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Source(s)/Contact

• Federal Medical Registry, National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (more information on 
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Comment(s)

• Facilities according to § 400 SGB V (formerly § 311 SGB V; the former polyclinics in the new federal states) are not included.
• General practitioners and specialist physicians are defined according to § 73 (1a) SGB V.
• Medical service centres were introduced in 2004 (§ 95 SGB V).
• As of 12/31/2019, there will be a sharp decline for the category of 'specialist multispecialty group practices'. The reason for this is that as of December 31, 2019, the physician groups of 'surgeons' and 'orthopedists' will be combined into the group of 'surgeons and orthopedists' in the contract physician statistics. This follows the merging of the two groups of demand planning physicians in the demand planning guideline of the Joint Federal Committee in 2019 and the merging of the areas in the model advanced training regulations of the German Medical Association in 2003. Due to this, joint practices between surgeons and orthopedists will no longer be counted as 'multispecialty joint practices' but as 'multispecialty joint practices' from 2019.
• Medical service centres are not analyzed via the Federal Medical Registry but via a regular survey carried out by the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians where the Associations of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians are polled. Until 2012, medical service centres, where SHI-physicians work are also included in the Statistics on practices, so a double counting occurs. The allocation to a category of practices depends on the specialist field and the area of care of the medical service centres (for example: A medical service centre, in which two SHI-physicians work, a specialist internist and a surgeon, is counted as interdisciplinary specialist joint practice). Medical service centres, where only employed physicians work, are not included in the Statistics of practices, so there is no double counting. Since 2013, also medical service centres, in which medical practitioners under contract to the health service work, are no longer included in the Statistics on practices, so there is no longer a double counting.

Refresh period of data

• The table was extended by the year 2022 on 23 Mar 2023.
  Information for a new reporting period will be added as soon as it is available.

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