Definition of a prospective payment system to reimburse emergency departments. [PDF]
BMC Health Serv Res, 2013 BackgroundPayers are increasingly turning to Prospective Payment Systems (PPSs) because they incentivize efficiency, but their application to emergency departments (EDs) is difficult because of the high level of uncertainty and variability in the cost of
Levaggi R, Montefiori M.
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Correction to: Changes in hemodialysis catheter management after introduction of the end-stage renal disease prospective payment system [PDF]
BMC Nephrology, 2021 An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
Nicholas S. Roetker +4 more
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Day Admission Surgery Program in a Prospective Payment System: What Are the Financial Incentives? [PDF]
Health Services InsightsBackground: Day admission surgery (DAS) is meant to provide a better in-hospital experience for patients and to save costs by reducing the length of stay.
Fabian Grass +3 more
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Readmission and Hospital Quality Under Prospective Payment System [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 Nowadays different healthcare policies in OECD countries seem to consider hospital readmission somehow “quality dependent”. Nonetheless, the theoretical literature on the incentives provided by payment systems tend to disregard this aspect, which indeed might be relevant in driving providers’ behaviour.
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DRG prospective payment systems: refine or not refine? [PDF]
Health Economics, 2009 AbstractWe present a model of contracting between a purchaser of health services and a provider (a hospital). We assume that hospitals provide two alternative treatments for a given diagnosis: a less intensive one (for example, a medical treatment) and a more intensive one (a surgical treatment).
Luigi Siciliani +1 more
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The trade-off between cost containment and quality enhancement under the DRG payment model [PDF]
BMC Health Services ResearchBackground The literature has demonstrated that the Diagnostic Related Group (DRG) payment model has been effective in controlling healthcare expenditures.
Zixuan Peng +4 more
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The possible impact of the US prospective payment system ("bundle") on the growth of peritoneal dialysis. [PDF]
Perit Dial Int, 2013 Golper TA.
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Financial implications to Medicare from changing the dialysis modality mix under the bundled prospective payment system. [PDF]
Perit Dial Int, 2014 Liu FX +4 more
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Major declines in epoetin dosing after prospective payment system based on dialysis facility organizational status. [PDF]
Am J Nephrol, 2014 Thamer M +5 more
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How Denmark, England, Estonia, France, Germany, and the USA Pay for Variable, Specialized and Low Volume Care: A Cross-country Comparison of In-patient Payment Systems [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2022 Background Diagnosis-related group (DRG)-based hospital payment can potentially be inadequately low (or high) for highly variable, highly specialized, and/or low volume care.
Wilm Quentin +7 more
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