[Experiences after 2 years of the federal operating cost rate directive]

The Federal Directive on Operating Cost Rates (BPflV) has now been in force for more than two years. An initial stocktaking with regard to the likely benefits and the costs associated with implementing the Directive properly therefore seems appropriate. The present paper is confined to experience gained at the Tübingen Clinic in the course of compiling diagnostic statistics for 1986 and 1987.