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Aim of the Study: Schizophrenia is one of the most severe psychiatric diseases. The German health care system still shows gaps in services for chronic psychiatric patients with intense need of treatment. The present article focused on changes in provision of health services for initially treated in-patients with schizophrenia in St. Hedwig hospitals in Berlin according to § 64b SGB V compared to patients receiving regular in-patient treatment., Methods: By using statutory data, we analyzed target figures. We analyzed patients of 3 cohorts. Propensity Score Matching generated a control group in each cohort., Results: The final analysis showed for schizophrenia patients treated in the model project that the number of hospital stays and overall length of stay decreased, but overall costs decreased only partially. Moreover, the period (in days) until next re-hospitalization was longer, while the sum of contacts to the outpatient sector increased. Conclusions The presented model project achieved the aimed shift of psychiatric health service into the outpatient sector for schizophrenia patients., Competing Interests: AB erklärt, dass sie innerhalb der vergangenen 3 Jahre Drittmittel von der BARMER erhalten hat. RK erklärt, dass er innerhalb der vergangenen 3 Jahre (im Jahre 2018) Drittmittel von der Barmer erhalten hat. LW: Wissenschaftliche Evaluation des Modellvorhabens gemäß § 64b SGB V der BARMER mit den St. Hedwig Kliniken Berlin. Alle anderen Autoren geben an, dass kein Interessenkonflikt besteht., (Thieme. All rights reserved.)