What does SHI stand for?

The Commission does not call into question the role of the private sickness funds in the statutory health insurance scheme; nor does it question the way private sickness funds are set up and regulated as far as the provision of statutory health insurance is concerned.

Germany''s statutory health insurance There are three different categories of sickness funds: primary funds, substitute funds and "special" funds.

In 2003, therefore, at the 3rd Mistletoe Symposium the so-called "Nonnweiler Declaration" was issued, in which the approximately 100 scientists present announced that medically useable mistletoe preparations for parenteral administration meet the requirements for prescription and reimbursement by the statutory health insurance funds.

The development of a German statutory health insurance system is characterized by increasing coverage of the population and a decreasing number of insurance funds.

GERMANY Controversial statutory insurance payments in pharmaceutical sector The Beitragssatzsicherungsgesetz (or federal act on the stabilisation of contribution rates to statutory health insurance and social security pension insurance) entered into force on 1 January 2003.

Fast Implementation on Existing Data Warehouse Ensures Regulatory Compliance ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC), the world's largest company solely focused on data warehousing and enterprise analytics, announced today that GKV-Spitzenverband, the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds in Germany, has chosen to use and expand a Teradata data warehouse operated by its technology subsidiary ITSG.

Another was to reduce overall pharmaceutical expenditure, especially by the statutory health insurance (GKV).

Another was to reduce overall pharmaceutical expenditure, especially by the statutory health insurance (GKV).