Go to Parliamentary initiative “For the protection of privacy also in the supervision of health insurance”. the Committee for Social Security and Health of the Council of States (SGK-SR) wrote a report (May 16, 2019, BBl 2019 5397 et seq.), on which the opinion of the Federal Council has now been published (Media release from August 21, 2019; Statement of the Federal Council of August 21, 2019).
In it, the Federal Council approves the proposal of the Commission majority that the legal basis for the transfer of insured person data to the BAG “specified” are to be:
The Federal Council is of the opinion that the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) must be able to access aggregated and, if necessary, individual data. This information is essential within the scope of its tasks, namely for the further development of risk equalization. The current legal provisions already allow the collection of individual data, but a more precise formulation should ensure greater legal certainty.
He also wants to Collection of individual data in the field of medicinal products and means and objects enable
The Federal Council also supports the proposal of the Commission minority, which provides for the possibility of collecting individual data in the area of medicinal products and means and articles. It believes that these data provide relevant information, for example to determine the sales generated by a new, very expensive drug at the expense of the mandatory health insurance.