Medical service centres
Medical service centres ("MVZ") are facilities, in which medical practitioners of different specialization work together under a single roof. MVZ are nowadays established as service providers in statutory medical care and are not only often mentioned by prospective physicians as an interesting employer, but have also proven to be an important link in the connection of outpatient and inpatient care. In the past, medical care centres could also be founded, for example, by non-medical health care professionals and providers of services. In practice this led to the fact, that MVZ were often founded by investors, who as financiers, e.g. by the purchase of a care service, fulfilled the conditions for the establishment of an MVZ. In order to combat the risk of medical decisions being influenced by capital interests, the Versorgungsstrukturgesetz, which came into force on 1 January 2012, stipulates that only medical practitioners with their own practice under contract to the statutory health insurance, hospitals, certain providers of non-medical dialysis services and certain charitable organisations are entitled to establish an MVZ. In addition, the establishment of an MVZ in the legal form of a stock company, for example, was excluded. The management of a medical care centre must be in the responsibility of a physician who works in the MVZ itself and is not subject to instructions in medical matters.With the Versorgungsstärkungsgesetz, which came into force on 23 July 2015, the legal framework conditions for the establishment of an MVZ were further developed. By the omission of the earlier criterion of the interdisciplinary medical activity now also MVZ with physicians of one medical field can be created. That means that now also pure family doctor MVZ as well as specialized MVZ of one field are possible. In addition, the municipalities were also given the opportunity to establish MVZ and thus actively influence and improve supply in the region.
(Source: Federal Ministry of Health)
Updated: 19 Jul 2018
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