Medizinischer Dienst Berlin-Brandenburg

What Medizinischer Dienst Berlin-Brandenburg does

Medizinischer Dienst Berlin-Brandenburg (MD-BB) is a statutory public-law corporation (Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts) established under § 280 SGB V of the German Social Code, operating as the designated regional medical expert body for the German states of Berlin and Brandenburg. It is one of 15 (or 16) regional branches coordinated by the Medizinischer Dienst Bund, and is supervised by the Brandenburg Ministry for Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Gender Equality (MASGZ). The organization delivers independent medical and nursing care assessments for statutory health and long-term care insurance funds (Kranken- und Pflegekassen), covering work disability certification, nursing care classification (Pflegebegutachtung), treatment error reviews, rehabilitation recommendations, aids (Hilfsmittel) prescriptions, evaluation of new examination and treatment methods, and quality reviews of care facilities per G-BA guidelines. The Vorstand (Executive Board) is led by CEO Dr. med. Axel Meeßen, and the organization maintains 501-1,000 employees across four physical locations in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Potsdam, Cottbus, and Fürstenwalde.

The organization's product surface is organized around three stakeholder groups: insured persons (Versicherte), insurance funds (Kranken-/Pflegekassen), and service providers (Leistungserbringer such as hospitals and care facilities). Core digital products include the main md-bb.org website (Typo3-based, hosted and maintained by i-gelb GmbH), the separate Videobegutachtung portal for session-based encrypted video medical assessments, the password-protected Auftragstracking portal for insurance fund order tracking, the MD-Portal for billing/coding/quality data, the Fortbildungsportal for continuing education of insurance fund employees, and the PIT generative AI chatbot (launched June 2026, 13 languages, 24/7). Marketing channels are institutional — website, LinkedIn, Xing, WhatsApp information channel, the forum quarterly magazine (published since 1997), and annual reports — reflecting a public-law, non-commercial posture.

The business model is not commercial in the conventional sense. The organization is funded through statutory contributions from health and long-term care insurance funds, with no direct charges to insured persons for core assessment services and no prices publicly disclosed. Continuing education for insurance fund employees is offered free of charge. GTM is therefore not sales-driven; services are commissioned by insurance funds as mandated by federal law, and insured persons are assessed upon referral. The organization holds a regional monopoly on legally binding medical and nursing assessments for statutory insurance purposes in Berlin and Brandenburg, with no private-sector substitute for this mandated function.

Name

Medizinischer Dienst Berlin-Brandenburg

Legal name

Medizinischer Dienst Berlin-Brandenburg

Website

https://md-bb.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Medizinischer Dienst Berlin-Brandenburg is a statutory public-law corporation that conducts independent medical and nursing care assessments for statutory health and long-term care insurance funds across the Berlin-Brandenburg region of Germany, operating under federal mandate.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Medical Assessment Services

NAICS

Health Care and Social Assistance (62)

SIC

Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Medicare Quality, Risk Adjustment & Stars Analytics/Services (FSAIAGAJ)

Keywords

• Medical assessment services
• Nursing care assessments
• Statutory health insurance
• Quality inspections
• Disability evaluations

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Statutory health and long-term care insurance funding: As a legally established body under § 280 SGB V, the organization is funded through contributions from statutory health and long-term care insurance funds. No direct charges to insured persons for core assessment services. Supervised by the Brandenburg Ministry for Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Gender Equality (MASGZ).

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Medizinischer Dienst Berlin-Brandenburg is the regionally mandated independent medical expert body that conducts medical and nursing care assessments for statutory health and long-term care insurance funds in Berlin and Brandenburg. Its core services include Pflegebegutachtung (nursing care classification), Arbeitsunfähigkeit (work disability) assessments, Behandlungsfehler (treatment error) expert opinions, rehabilitation recommendations, Hilfsmittel (aids) assessments, and quality inspections of hospitals and nursing facilities, supplemented by digital tools such as the video assessment portal and the AI chatbot PIT.

Product overview

Medizinischer Dienst Berlin-Brandenburg is a statutory medical assessment service operating under Germany's Social Code Book V (SGB V). Its primary offering is a multi-service public information and service platform organized around three main stakeholder groups: (1) Versicherte (insured persons) — who access information on nursing assessments, disability evaluations, rehabilitation, medical aids, and the IGeL-Monitor; (2) Kranken-/Pflegekassen (health/nursing insurers) — who use the MD-Portal, Auftragstracking system, and Fortbildungsportal; and (3) Leistungserbringer (service providers such as hospitals and care facilities) — who access billing, coding, and quality assessment tools. The flagship digital product is the KI-Chatbot PIT, a generative AI nursing information tool launched in June 2026, integrated into the main website. A separate Videobegutachtung portal enables remote video-based assessments. The organization also maintains a dedicated Fortbildungsportal for professional training and uses MD-Portal and Auftragstracking as service portals for insurance fund partners.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• PIT (Pflege-Informations-Tool): AI-powered chatbot providing information about nursing assessments, available 24/7 in 13 languages. Launched in June 2026.
• IGeL-Monitor

Products and services

• Medical and Nursing Care Assessments (Begutachtungen) Independent medical and nursing assessments commissioned by statutory health and long-term care insurance funds, covering nursing care classification (Pflegebegutachtung), work disability (Arbeitsunfähigkeit), treatment error (Behandlungsfehler) expert opinions, rehabilitation recommendations, medical aids (Hilfsmittel) assessments, außerklinische Intensivpflege, and evaluation of new examination and treatment methods.
• Quality Inspections of Care Facilities (Qualitätsprüfungen) Quality reviews of hospitals (per G-BA guidelines) and nursing facilities (Qualitätsprüfungen Pflege) performed for statutory insurance funds to assess care quality, compliance with federal standards, and adherence to contractual requirements.
• Videobegutachtung (Video Assessment Portal) Self-service web portal enabling insured persons to register and participate in remote video-based medical assessments, with encrypted session-based login and data storage.
• Pflege-Chatbot PIT (Pflege-Informations-Tool) Generative AI chatbot that answers questions about the nursing care assessment process for insured persons and relatives, drawing exclusively from MD-BB website content, available 24/7 in 13 languages.
• Auftragstracking (Order Tracking Portal) Password-protected portal that allows employees of Krankenkassen and Pflegekassen to track the status of assessment requests they have submitted to MD-BB.
• MD-Portal Service portal for health and nursing insurance fund employees providing access to structured OPS billing information, service group assessments, billing reviews and SEG 4 coding recommendations, and quality assessments per G-BA guidelines.
• Fortbildungsportal (Continuing Education Portal) Training portal offering online and in-person seminars on medical aid assessment, hospital coding, quality inspections, new examination and treatment methods, rehabilitation, and medico-legal questions, with training materials and certificates provided to health and nursing insurance fund employees.
• IGeL-Monitor Evidence-based evaluation platform of self-pay health services (Individuelle Gesundheitsleistungen / IGeL) with 61 scientific assessments categorized from positive to negative, plus podcasts and detailed articles.

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability2 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• i-gelb GmbHcoreTechnology or Integrationi-gelb GmbH (Mauritiuswall 24-26, 50676 Köln) provides technical maintenance of the MD-BB internet presence and hosts the AI chatbot PIT infrastructure and software. The firm also provides technical support for the chatbot platform.
• Medizinischer Dienst BundcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMD-BB is one of 15 regional branches of the Medizinischer Dienst (Medical Service) network. The Medizinischer Dienst Bund coordinates and promotes professional work across all regional branches, issues guidelines ensuring nationwide consistent assessment criteria, and operates the IGeL Monitor. MD-BB participates in this national framework for standards and quality.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• BARMER: Large national statutory health insurance fund that commissions assessments from all MD branches including MD-BB. Not directly comparable as a service provider but represents a key principal/customer relationship and similar regulatory environment.

Regional players

• AOK Nordost: Major regional statutory health insurance fund operating in the same Berlin-Brandenburg geography as MD-BB. One of MD-BB's primary commissioning customers — comparable in regional mandate but operates as the payer side of the same assessment ecosystem.

Direct peers

• Medizinischer Dienst Bund: The federal umbrella organization of which MD-BB is a regional branch. Sets nationwide assessment standards, coordinates 15+ regional MDs, and operates the IGeL-Monitor. The parent-most direct comparable in terms of mandate, services, and organizational structure.
• Medizinischer Dienst Bayern: Regional MD branch for Bavaria with the same § 280 SGB V mandate. Conducts medical assessments, nursing classifications, and hospital billing reviews for Bavarian statutory insurance funds — comparable scale and scope to MD-BB.
• Medizinischer Dienst Nordrhein: Another regional Medizinischer Dienst branch serving the Nordrhein region. Operates the same statutory mandate for medical assessments, nursing care classification, and quality reviews under SGB V — directly comparable in services, customer base, and regulatory framework.

Broad incumbents

• Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Berlin: The regional association of statutory health insurance physicians in Berlin. Shares the public-law Körperschaft structure and works with the same insurance funds but focuses on ambulatory physician licensing and contract management rather than medical assessments — overlapping regulatory environment and customer base.
• Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss (G-BA): The federal joint committee that issues the quality assurance guidelines (Richtlinien) that MD-BB applies in hospital and nursing facility quality reviews. Sets the standards MD-BB enforces — directly comparable regulatory relevance in the German healthcare system.
• GKV-Spitzenverband: The central association of all statutory health and long-term care insurance funds in Germany — effectively MD-BB's primary principal/customer at the federal level. Comparable in regulatory weight but operates as a payer rather than assessor.

Emerging players

• IGES Institut: Private research and consulting institute providing healthcare evaluations, benefit assessments, and quality analyses for German statutory health insurance. Operates as a private-sector counterpart to MD-BB's evaluation and assessment mandate — competes indirectly for healthcare research commissions.
• Zentralinstitut für die kassenärztliche Versorgung (Zi): Research institute of the German Kassenärztliche Vereinigungen performing data-driven quality analyses of ambulatory care. Comparable in providing evidence-based healthcare evaluations and serving statutory insurance stakeholders, though focused on ambulatory physician services rather than insurance assessments.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xxing.com/pages/mdkberlin-brandenburge-v
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/medizinischer-dienst-berlin-brandenburg

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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