Global budget versus cost ceiling: a natural experiment in hospital payment reform in the Netherlands
Abstract Global budget (GB) arrangements have become a popular method worldwide to control the rise in healthcare expenditures. By guaranteeing hospital funding, payers hope to eliminate the drive for increased production, and incentivize providers to deliver more efficient care and lower utilization. We evaluated the introduction of GB contracts by certain large insurers in Dutch hospital care in 2012 and compared health care utilization to those insurers who continued with more traditional production-based contracts, i.e., cost ceiling (CC) contracts. We used the share of GB hospital funding... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | The European Journal of Health Economics ; volume 21, issue 1, page 105-114 ; ISSN 1618-7598 1618-7601 |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Schlagwörter: | Health Policy / Economics / Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26848791 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10198-019-01114-6 |