{"id":1130,"date":"2025-08-24T13:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T11:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.promedicus.ch\/correction-regarding-the-report-on-proqura-in-the-sonntagsblick-newspaper-dated-24-august-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T15:28:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:28:33","slug":"correction-regarding-the-report-on-proqura-in-the-sonntagsblick-newspaper-dated-24-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.promedicus.ch\/en\/correction-regarding-the-report-on-proqura-in-the-sonntagsblick-newspaper-dated-24-august-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Correction regarding the report on proQura in the Sonntagsblick newspaper dated 24 August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article &#8220;\u00c4rzte kassieren Millionenrabatte bei Medis&#8221; published in Sonntagsblick on 24 August 2025 contains a number of untruths and half-truths about pharmaceutical companies, doctors and proQura.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The facts are as follows<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Since 2020, Art. 56 para. 3bis of the Swiss Health Insurance Act (KVG) and VITH have been in force in Switzerland. With these new provisions, the legislator wanted to make advantages on therapeutic products transparent and ensure that they are used to improve quality and reduce costs. The aim was and is to benefit patients and insured persons in particular: better quality at lower premiums.<\/li>\n<li>proQura is a system for implementing these new provisions in the field of outpatient specialist doctors. proQura is neither a \u2018purchasing organisation\u2019 nor an \u2018intermediary\u2019 (as incorrectly claimed in Sonntagsblick). Rather, proQura is a quality system consisting of a comprehensive database, a scientifically based quality catalogue and a billing system. proQura is responsible for implementing the legal provisions on the passing on of advantages on therapeutic products for specialists working in private practice. Helsana&#8217;s statements in Sonntagsblick regarding non-transparent advantages refer to other players and their activities, which have nothing to do with proQura and are beyond our knowledge.<\/li>\n<li>proQura handles the legally compliant implementation of advantages on therapeutic products and payments to health insurance companies for its affiliated doctors. All cash flows are disclosed to the FOPH and all health insurance companies in a completely transparent and detailed manner for each medical practice. For example, Helsana also has full insight into the advantages granted at any time, broken down by service provider, medication and individual billing line. In addition to this level of detail, it can also see how much of the advantages remain with the doctor and how much is passed on to it. This applies to all insurance companies: each health insurance company receives a precise report from proQura that complies with data protection regulations, down to the level of each service provider and each individual service invoice.<\/li>\n<li>The FOPH certifies that proQura makes its reports completely transparent, including the advantages per service provider and their retention and transfer to the health insurance companies. The FDHA is showing interest in the system, which promises further savings for the healthcare system if more specialists, general practitioners, hospitals and others also join systems such as proQura.<\/li>\n<li>All Swiss health insurers, more than 20 pharmaceutical companies and now almost 800 doctors are contractually affiliated with proQura.<\/li>\n<li>The majority of the remedies stored with proQura with an advantage are generics and biosimilars. Thanks to proQura, cheaper imitation products are increasingly being used, which, in addition to the cost reduction mentioned above, has a significant effect on reducing premiums.<\/li>\n<li>proQura is widely supported by all stakeholders, in particular the FOPH, health insurers, the FMH, medical associations, doctors and industry. Similar systems exist in hospitals and among general practitioners.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does proQura work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pharmaceutical companies grant advantages on medicines. Participating doctors can retain a small portion of these advantages if they can prove that they are using this portion to improve quality. Doctors must pass on more than half of the advantage to health insurers in order to reduce health insurance premiums.<\/p>\n<p>The quality measures implemented by doctors at proQura are based on a comprehensive quality catalogue developed by Pro Medicus in collaboration with the participating medical associations, which is reviewed annually by an independent institute for scientific evidence. This further raises the quality level of the Swiss healthcare system.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the proQura system now generates tens of millions of pounds annually, which must be used by health insurers to reduce health insurance premiums. Between 2020 and 2025, proQura has already saved almost CHF 50 million for the Swiss healthcare system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>proQura helps to maintain the high quality standards of the Swiss healthcare system, significantly reduce costs and manage financing through advantages in a fair, transparent and trustworthy manner.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This text has been translated using DeepL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article &#8220;\u00c4rzte kassieren Millionenrabatte bei Medis&#8221; published in Sonntagsblick on 24 August 2025 contains a number of untruths and half-truths about pharmaceutical companies, doctors and proQura. The facts are as follows Since 2020, Art. 56 para. 3bis of the Swiss Health Insurance Act (KVG) and VITH have been in force in Switzerland. 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