Overview

• Eight Brandenburg counties that had been limited to fixed insurer payments secured a new cost-sharing model to ensure ambulance rides remain free.
• The "peace obligation" negotiated by Ministerpräsident Dietmar Woidke expired on June 30, lifting the moratorium on issuing fee notices.
• Insurers will transition from the January flat-rate scheme back to fee-based reimbursements calibrated to actual service costs.
• Treatment of non-transport "empty trips" has been deferred while the Oberverwaltungsgericht Berlin-Brandenburg reviews a challenge to Teltow-Fläming's fee statute.
• Mounting budget shortfalls under fixed flat rates had driven counties to renegotiate terms rather than pass costs onto patients.