Illness	Number of cases
Fibromyalgia (M79.70)	602
Seropositive rheumatoid arthritis - Other rheumatoid arthritis with rheumatoid factor of unspecified site (M05.80)	222
Other systemic involvement of connective tissue - Polymyalgia rheumatica (M35.3)	210
Other soft tissue disorders not elsewhere classified - Myalgia unspecified site (M79.10)	207
Other rheumatoid arthritis - Rheumatoid arthritis without rheumatoid factor unspecified site (M06.00)	137
Psoriasis (L40.5)	132
Rheumatoid arthritis unspecified (M06.90)	76
Ankylosing spondylitis of multiple sites in spine (M45.00)	32
Other necrotizing vasculopathies - Other giant cell arteritis (M31.6)	26
Rheumatoid arthritis with rheumatoid factor unspecified (M05.90)	25

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.1)	1.687
Procedure for dialysing the blood outside the body with removal of the poison over a concentration gradient - dialysis (8-854.2)	986
Others therapeutic procedures to influence the immune system (8-547.31)	900
Blood purification outside the body through a combination of haemofiltration and dialysis (8-855.3)	641
Blood purification outside the body through a combination of haemofiltration and dialysis (8-855.4)	615
Procedure for dialysing the blood outside the body with removal of the poison over a concentration gradient - dialysis (8-854.3)	585
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.00)	225
(9-984.7)	137
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	109
Administration of medicines in accordance with List 2 of the procedures list (6-002.b2)	105

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External quality assurance according to state law
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Quality of participation in the Disease Management Programme (DMP)
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Further training
pursuant to Article 136b, para. 1, sentence 1, no. 1 of the SGB

Number	Group
68	Medical specialists (m/f) , psychological psychotherapists (m/f) and child and adolescent psychotherapists (m/f) who are subject to the obligation to undergo further training*
60	Number of medical specialists (m/f) from no. 1 who have completed a five-year period of further training and are therefore subject to the obligation to provide evidence
60	Number of those persons from no. 2 who have provided proof of further training according to Article 3 of the G-BA regulations

* according to the “Provisions of the Joint Federal Committee for the Further Training of Medical Specialists (m/f), Psychological Psychotherapists (m/f) and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists (m/f) in Hospitals”

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