Care and health
KBV
Abbreviation for Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung
In short and in plain language
The KBV is a German umbrella group. It joins the groups of doctors who work with health funds.
It speaks for these doctors and for psychotherapists across the country.
With the health funds, it shapes deals and forms for care outside hospital.
Care services meet it in prescriptions and forms.
Definition
The KBV is the German umbrella organisation of the associations of statutory health insurance physicians and represents them at federal level. Together with the health insurance funds it shapes agreements and forms for outpatient care. Care services encounter it in prescriptions and standard forms, for example.