Newsletter October 2024
This year, in cooperation with the main experts of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic and representatives of professional societies, we have managed to completely revise 2 areas in the List of medical procedures, namely the area of urology and spondylosurgery. Based on feedback from system users, we have added procedures that were missing in daily clinical practice as well as more innovative minimally invasive and technologically advanced procedures, such as robotic surgery. We also expanded the list to include procedures for the purpose of tracking and assessing potential attributable items for drugs and HAIs. We identified and excluded a number of duplicate and obsolete procedures. We continued to add inclusions and exclusions for clear and accurate reporting. With the same purpose in the Explanations section, we added a Code List of anatomic locations and associated vessels. We have also created a 2024-2025 performance converter to make updating information systems and tracking changes as easy as possible.
The Steering Committee approved the annual benefit data interface for 2024. The changes were mainly in section 3.2.4 Summary Data and section 3.2.5 Medical Sites. Additionally, new entries were added to the cc_90008 SND codebook. Terms and their definitions have also been added. The texts describing the content of the DR entries have been clarified. The approved version of the data interface is available on our website.
New attributable items were incorporated into the attributable items that were evaluated over the DRG data. The new add-on items were mainly incorporated in drugs and special medical supplies. In addition to the above, we were able to roll out a pilot version of add-on items for new technologies, of which 2 drugs were evaluated and incorporated as add-on items in the Case Fee Catalogue.
" As we do every year, we are preparing a conference, this time in conjunction with the United Nations - A Vision for Hospital Categorisation and Pricing from 2025, where we will keep you informed of updates and changes.