AvP insolvency - initial legal findings
Initial legal findings
On 15.09.2020, the pharmacy billing center AvP Germany filed for insolvency. Since then, there has been great uncertainty among service providers. The insolvency of this payment service provider affects many pharmacies and other service providers throughout Germany; the feared losses due to outstanding payments for prescriptions to be billed run into the billions. For affected pharmacies and the (provisional) insolvency administrator, but also for other healthcare providers who have outsourced their billing and are not (directly) affected by the current insolvency, difficult questions are already emerging from a legal, economic and technical perspective:
