DRG journey in Slovakia

Potentially functional DRG system as a payment mechanism in the form of multi-source financing.

Making the CKS DRG portal available

Cultivation of DRG reporting

Access to DRG data

I. DRG Conference

Transfer of DRG competences from the Office for Health Protection to the Ministry of Health

For 2017, all PHCUs, representing 62 hospitals, were required to report the annual benefit.

The collection of medical and economic data was carried out for the first time in 2015, when 13 inpatient healthcare providers were involved in the pilot project.

Training of DRG system users according to individual training programmes. The Office (CKS) implemented the project "Training of DRG system users", which was co-financed by the European Social Fund. The training was provided by IneK-trained staff of the Office (national experts).

Signed an amendment to the contract with InEK.

The preparation of the first version SK-DRG 1.0, which was built on the G-DRG 2011 version, has started. It was adapted to ICD-10 according to ICD-10-GM-2011.

Establishment of a list of medical procedures of inpatient (inpatient) health care (later adopted as the List of Medical Procedures of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Groups).

A number of essential documents have been translated, such as the Disease and Health Procedure Coding Rules.

Cooperation agreement between the Health Care Supervisory Authority and the Institut für das Entgeltsystem im Krankenhaus GmbH (InEK).

Resolution of the Government of the Slovak Republic No. 481/2011 approved the fundamental document for the implementation of the DRG system in the Slovak Republic "Concept of provision and implementation of the DRG system".

The Steering Committee decided on the selection of a suitable foreign system, considering the German DRG system (G-DRG) to be the most suitable system for Slovak conditions .

Competences for DRG issues have been designated for the Health Care Supervisory Authority. The Authority created its new organisational component, the Centre for Classification System.

The Ministry of Health started the implementation of the classification system and the Health Care Supervisory Authority became the centre for the classification system of diagnostic and therapeutic groups.