Health Policy Monitor, Integration of care after the 2005 health reform

Based on stipulations in the 2005 Austrian health reform bill, nine State Health Agencies and its health platforms (one in each federal state, i.e. "Land") were constituted in 2006. One goal is to overcome the separation of the several health sectors and to reach better coordination in planning, controlling and financing of the entire health system. Funds will be earmarked ("reform pool") to compensate shifts in service provision between health care settings while the quality is maintained.