# Geriatric medicine offers an opportunity for growth – recognize geriatric potential and use additional proceeds

- Link: https://goek.consulting/en/altersmedizin-bietet-chance-zum-wachstum-geriatrisches-potenzial-erkennen-und-mehrerlose-nutzen-2/
- Published: 2020-03-12T05:39:25+00:00
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**Dr. Peter Vetter, Dr.-Ing. Jörg Risse, Stefanie Kolbe** 

The demographic development makes geriatrics a growth area in acute inpatient care.
Geriatric potential is currently unused in many hospitals. There is not inconsiderable
additional revenue for hospitals because the billing options are not used by geriatric
complex flat rates.
 One reason for this is the lack of structured screening to 
identify geriatric patients. On the other hand, the lack of an agreement on the 
internal allocation of services between the specialist departments involved in many
places also helps to ensure that geriatric potential is not used. It is therefore
important to identify and use the geriatric potential and the additional revenue
generated as a result, and to establish an attractive method for internal activity
allocation for all the specialist departments involved.

KU Health Management , Edition 01/2016, pp. 40-44

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