Union added to hospitals only modestly

Health insurance company Union, which has reached the highest profit among all health insurance companies last year, will increase payments to hospitals from April only to cover increased salaries of doctors. Salaries of nurses will remain uncovered. Moreover, hospitals may expect higher payments only in case, if the system will be additionally financed either by increasing of payments from state for the economically inactive policyholders or by the releasing of € 50 million reserve for health care from the state budget.