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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.
GUCCIO, Calogero, Lisi D, PIGNATARO, Giacomo   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

A New Approach to Reducing Payments Made to Hospitals with High Complication Rates

Inquiry: 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, Elizabeth C. McCullough, Richard F. Averill   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Paying for the quantity and quality of hospital care : the foundations and evolution of payment policy in England [PDF]

, 2015
Prospective payment arrangements are now the main form of hospital funding in most developed countries. An essential component of such arrangements is the classification system used to differentiate patients according to their expected resource ...
A Darzi, D Dawson, Department of Health, Department of Health, Department of Health, Department of Health, Department of Health, Department of Health, Department of Health, Department of Health Payment by Results team, Healthcare Financial Management Association and Department of Health, HF Sanderson, Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care, J Lawlor, JM Coles, Monitor, National Casemix Office, NHS Confederation, NHS Executive, NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care, NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care, NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care, P Anthony, PL Benton, S Daidone   +24 more
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Prospective payment system and racial/ethnic disparities: a national retrospective observational study in anaemia complication among end-stage renal disease patients in the US

BMC Nephrology, 2020
Background A series of policy changes in 2011 altered reimbursement arrangements and guidance on use of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients with anaemia in the US.
Nga TQ. Nguyen, Alexander P. Maxwell, Michael Donnelly, Ciaran O’Neill   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Concurrence par comparaison et transformations quasi-marchandes

Revue 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
doaj   +1 more source

Converting to Critical Access Status: How Does it Affect Rural Hospitals' Financial Performance?

Inquiry: 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, John E. Schneider, Marcia M. Ward   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trends in Medicare Physician and Facility Fee Reimbursement in Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle

Foot & 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, Haroon Kisana, John R. Martin, Chad Stecher, Joshua Hustedt MD   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Molecular cancer prevention: Intercepting disease

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Oncological practice must evolve, from treating established tumours to proactive cancer interception before clinical manifestation. This will require mechanistic insight into tumour initiation, validated biomarkers of early disease development and redesigned clinical trials, enabling cancer interception to become a core pillar of oncology with the ...
Charlotte Grieco, Tej Pandya, Charles Swanton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source