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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
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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

Sistem Pembiayaan dan Skema Kelembagaan Jaminan Kesehatan Daerah Kota YOGYAKARTA [PDF]

, 2011
State using national health insurance system as a state system and government to give social protection so that each people can fullfil human basic needs.
Sunarto, S. (Sunarto)
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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
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Carcinomas and Carcinoid Tumors of the Lungs and Bronchi in Children and Adolescents: The EXPeRT Recommendations

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Primary lung carcinomas and bronchial carcinoid tumors (BC) are very rare malignancies in childhood. While typical BC and mucoepidermoid carcinomas are mostly low‐grade, localized tumors with a more favorable prognosis than in adults, necessitating avoidance of overtreatment, adenocarcinomas of the lung are often diagnosed at advanced disease ...
Michael Abele, Calogero Virgone, Michaela Kuhlen, Sabine Irtan, Yves Reguerre, Malgorzata Krawczyk, Ewa Bien, Tal Ben‐Ami, Maja Cesen, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Andrea Ferrari, Gianni Bisogno, Dominik T. Schneider, Abbas Agaimy, Constantin Lapa, Hubert Ducou le Pointe, Rainer Claus, Catherine Daniel, Ines B. Brecht, Daniel Orbach   +19 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
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Inhibition of Classical and Alternative Complement Pathway by Ravulizumab and Eculizumab

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To explore the feasibility of classical (CH50) and alternative (AH50) complement pathway activity as potential biomarkers for treatment guidance and monitoring during therapy with ravulizumab in patients with generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG) and compare these to therapeutic drug monitoring under eculizumab.
Lea Gerischer, Frauke Stascheit, Maximilian Mönch, Paolo Doksani, Carla Dusemund, Meret Herdick, Philipp Mergenthaler, Maike Stein, Amani Suboh, Jutta Schröder‐Braunstein, Guido Wabnitz, Jan D. Lünemann, Sophie Lehnerer, Sarah Hoffmann, Andreas Meisel   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prediction of Myasthenia Gravis Worsening: A Machine Learning Algorithm Using Wearables and Patient‐Reported Measures

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a rare disorder characterized by fluctuating muscle weakness with potential life‐threatening crises. Timely interventions may be delayed by limited access to care and fragmented documentation. Our objective was to develop predictive algorithms for MG deterioration using multimodal telemedicine data ...
Maike Stein, Haoqi Sun, Sophie Lehnerer, Lea Gerischer, Maximilian Mönch, Christian Meisel, Andreas Meisel, Pushpa Narayanaswami   +7 more
wiley   +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

Iranian 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, Wenwei LIU, Fengqing WEI, Haichen ZHANG, Suping WANG, Weijun ZHU, Jin MA   +6 more
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Use of Symptomatic Drug Treatment for Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis and Patterns of Work Loss

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To describe the use of central stimulants and amantadine for fatigue in MS and evaluate a potential association with reduced work loss in people with MS. Methods We conducted a nationwide, matched, register‐based cohort study in Sweden (2006 to 2023) using national registers with prospective data collection.
Simon Englund, Johan Reutfors, Thomas Frisell, Fredrik Piehl   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source