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Hospital-Based and Freestanding Skilled Nursing Facilities: Any Cause for Differential Medicare Payments?

open access: yesInquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2003
Differential Medicare payments for hospital-based and freestanding skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) were eliminated by the SNF prospective payment system initiated in 1998.
Korbin Liu, Kirsten J. Black
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Assessing the performance of a method for case-mix adjustment in the Korean Diagnosis-Related Groups (KDRG) system and its policy implications

open access: yesHealth Research Policy and Systems, 2021
Background To evaluate the performance of the patient clinical complexity level (PCCL) mechanism, which is the patient-level complexity adjustment factor within the Korean Diagnosis-Related Groups (KDRG) patient classification system, in explaining the ...
Sujeong Kim   +4 more
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The Experience of the Home Health Prospective Payment System in the United States and Its Enlightenment for China [PDF]

open access: yesZhongguo quanke yixue
Based on literature analysis, the paper systematically summarizes the development history, grouping and payment mode of the Home Health Prospective Payment System (HHPPS) in the United States.
HU Yuhong, GUO Lijun, PENG Xiangdong, SUN Wei, BAO Yong
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Development of a novel hospital payment system – Big data diagnosis & intervention Packet

open access: yesHealth Policy Open, 2022
The diagnosis related group (DRG) was the most commonly used prospective hospital payment platform in developed countries. One of the major limitations of the DRG system is that the DRG grouping is not sufficiently homogeneous in benchmarking underlying ...
Hua Xie   +5 more
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Readmission and Hospital Quality Under Prospective Payment System [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN 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.
GUCCIO, Calogero   +2 more
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A New Approach to Reducing Payments Made to Hospitals with High Complication Rates

open access: yesInquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2011
This article proposes a redesign of the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system to reduce payments made to hospitals with high complication rates.
Richard L. Fuller   +2 more
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Concurrence par comparaison et transformations quasi-marchandes

open access: yesRevue de la Régulation, 2015
By implementing cost accounting in the 1980 and a prospective payment system in the 2000, french reformers of hospitals have explicitely tried to put into practice the idea of yardstick competition. This paper show how the ministry of health has tried to
Pierre-André Juven
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Converting to Critical Access Status: How Does it Affect Rural Hospitals' Financial Performance?

open access: yesInquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2009
To improve rural access to care, the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 allowed eligible rural hospitals to convert to critical access hospitals (CAHs), which changed their Medicare payment from a prospective payment system (PPS) to a cost-based system.
Pengxiang Li   +2 more
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Trends in Medicare Physician and Facility Fee Reimbursement in Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle

open access: yesFoot & Ankle Orthopaedics, 2022
Category: Ankle; Ankle Arthritis; Arthroscopy; Bunion; Diabetes; Hindfoot; Lesser Toes; Midfoot/Forefoot; Sports; Trauma Introduction/Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the trends in physician and facility reimbursement for the orthopaedic ...
Clayton Hui   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impacts of Hospital Payment Based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) with Global Budget on Resource Use and Quality of Care: A Case Study in China

open access: yesIranian Journal of Public Health, 2019
Background: China has implemented numerous pilots to shift its hospital payment mechanism from the traditional retrospective cost-based system to prospective diagnosis-related-group (DRG) -based system.
Suwei YUAN   +6 more
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