No room for 'biased' patients and doctors in Germany's AMNOG system
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Patient organizations and medical societies are not impartial enough and lack the expertise to have any greater involvement in Germany's AMNOG pricing and reimbursement system, said Josef Hecken, head of the G-BA, the committee in charge of the AMNOG process.
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