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Committee meeting on the topic "Cost Drivers in Healthcare"
The next meeting of the Health Insurance Committee will take place on Thursday, November 6, 2025, from 12:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on the topic "Cost Drivers in Healthcare." Five keynote speeches followed by discussions are planned:
- Get together with a light lunch
- Welcome and introduction to the topic
- Lecture + Discussion: "Determinants of Expenditure Growth in the Statutory Health Insurance System" – Prof. Stefan Fetzer (Aalen University)
- Lecture + Discussion: "Tracking Cost Drivers in Relevant Service Areas" – Dr. Dirk Sunder Plaßmann (spektrumK)
- Lecture + Discussion: "The Statutory Health Insurance Estimating Group and its Results for the Coming Year" – Dr. Sylvia Demme (Federal Office for Social Security)
- Coffee Break
- Lecture + Discussion: "Drug Expenditure in Statutory Health Insurance and Private Health Insurance – Cost Drivers and Indicators of Medical Services Demand" – Dr. Christian O. Jacke (WIP)
- Lecture + Discussion: "Cost Trends in Healthcare from the Perspective of the DAV Committee on Health Insurance – Jörg Frisch (Debeka), Wiltrud Pekarek (ALH Gruppe), Christian Zöller (VRK)
- Closing Discussion and Outlook on the dggö Annual Conference 2026
- End and Joint Visit to a Restaurant on the Rhine (optional)
The committee meeting will take place at 50968 Cologne, Gustav-Heinemann-Ufer 74c, Conference Area of the Private Health Insurance Association. Please register for the event by email (frank.wild@wip-pkv.de). The full invitation to the meeting, including the program, can be found here.
Goals
The Health Insurance Committee has a long tradition and was founded in 2009. The committee's goal is to address current challenges in health and long-term care insurance, particularly interface issues, on a scientific basis. This also focuses on the political and practical implementation of solutions. This results in a broad spectrum of topics that the committee has addressed in recent years.
While the committee traditionally deals with financing and competition in health insurance, in recent years the focus has shifted to issues of care and prevention, also taking digitalization into account. In 2023, the committee decided to take a holistic view of health and long-term care insurance, so it is currently also examining issues related to long-term care insurance. Relevant topics here include the financing of long-term care insurance, the prevention of long-term care needs, and informal care.
In the committee, we try to identify current challenges and address and discuss them during our meetings. The committee brings together researchers and people from health insurance companies or other companies and institutions.
The committee meets annually as part of the DGGÖ's annual conference and, if possible, once again in the fall. The one-day fall conferences take place at various locations or online, and the program typically includes keynote speeches and discussions.
Chair
- 2009-2010: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Greiner
- 2010-2013: Dr. Christoph Vauth
- 2013-2015: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zerth
- 2015-2017: Prof. Dr. Florian Buchner
- 2017-2019: Prof. Dr. York Zöllner
- 2019-2021: PD Dr. Udo Schneider
- 2021-2023: PD Dr. Jan Zeidler
- 2023-2025: Prof. Dr. Anja Behrens-Potratz
- 2025-lfd.: Dr. Frank Wild
Events
Committee Meeting 6.11.2025
November 6, 2025, Cologneon the topic "Cost Drivers in Healthcare"
Committee Meeting 03.06.2025
June 3, 2025, MS Teamson the topic of "Artificial Intelligence in Health Insurance"
Committee meeting 21.11.2024
November 21-21, 2024, Zoomon the topic of “Financing of long-term care insurance“
16. Annual meeting of the DGGÖ in Halle (Saale)
March 4-4, 2024, Halle (Saale)Financing of long-term care insurance – contribution rate forecasts and prevention of long-term care needs
15. Annual meeting of the DGGÖ in Hanover
March 13-13, 2023, HanoverFuture of long-term care insurance in challenging times
Autumn session, online as a Webex conference
November 8-8, 2022, onlineOrientation and key topics of the committee
14. Annual meeting of the DGGÖ in Hamburg
March 28-28, 2022, HamburgCosts and benefits of DiGA – current experiences and implications for the future of care
13. Annual meeting of the DGGÖ in Nuremberg
March 8-8, 2021, onlineWho should pay for it - health insurance in times of pandemic
Fall Session September 24-24, 2020, online
Digitalization and telemedicine
Autumn session in Berlin
October 24-24, 2019, Berlin
Digitalization – Do we need to rethink health insurance?
11. Annual meeting of the DGGÖ in Augsburg
March 18-18, 2019, Augsburg
The Innovation Fund on the threshold of standard care
9. Annual meeting of the DGGÖ in Basel
February 16-16, 2017, BaselManaged Care Contracts; Monopolies Commission Competition Report 2016 (Presentations by Prof. Dr. Konstantin Beck and Marc Bataille)
8. Annual meeting of the DGGÖ in Berlin
March 14-14, 2016, BerlinCompetition in the area of statutory and private health insurance
(Presentations by Dr. Martin Albrecht, Dr. Volker Leienbach and Prof. Dr. Klaus Jacobs)
Autumn Meeting in Hamburg
November 1-1, 2015, HamburgMarket Concentration
7th Annual Conference of the German Society for Health Insurance (DGGÖ) in Bielefeld
March 16-16, 2015, BielefeldCompetition in Private Health Insurance (PKV): Models for the Portability of Retirement Provisions
(Presentation by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Wasem)
6th Annual Conference of the German Society for the Promotion of Consumer Protection (DGGÖ) in Munich
March 17-17, 2014, MunichSolidary Competition: Quo Vadis?
(Presentations by Prof. Dr. Volker Ulrich and Prof. Dr. Dieter Cassel)
Membership
Get actively involved in the committee's work! Feel free to contact the committee chair if you have any questions!
Chair
Dr. Frank Wild
WIP (Wissenschaftliches Institut der PKV),
Gustav-Heinemann-Ufer 74c,
50968 Köln
Deputy chair
Prof. Dr. Stefan Fetzer
Hochschule Aalen, Fakultät Wirtschaft
und Gesundheit, Beethovenstr. 1, 73430
Aalen