[The DRG law--planning gone wrong? The conversion from the physician's point of view].

With the Health Care Reform Act of 2000 the German government initiated the introduction of a new hospital funding system based on an internationally used Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) system. In June 2000, the medical self-governing bodies (consisting of representatives of the German Hospital Federation, the German Statutory Health Insurance Funds and the Association of Private Health Insurances) commissioned for the execution of this project decided to use the Australian Refined DRG system, version 4.1 (AR DRG) as the basis for the future German (Refined) DRG system (G-DRG).