Charting a path forward: policy analysis of China's evolved DRG-based hospital payment system

Charting a path forward: policy analysis of China's evolved DRG-based hospital payment system

Background At present, the diagnosis-related groups-based prospective payment system (DRG-PPS) that has been implemented in China is merely a prototype called the simplified DRG-PPS, which is known as the 'ceiling price for a single disease'. Given that studies on the effects of a simplified DRG-PPS in China have usually been controversial, we aim to synthesize evidence examining whether DRGs c...

DRG-type hospital payment in Germany: The G-DRG system

In Germany, there are about 2100 hospitals providing care for about 17 million inpatient cases per year.3 Hospitals are financed through a system of ‘dual financing’, which means that they receive funds from two different sources: infrastructure investments are covered directly by tax-funded state budgets, whereas operating costs are paid mostly by sickness funds and private health insurers.4 T...

DRG-based hospital payment: Intended and unintended consequences

Understanding DRGs and DRG-based hospital payment in Europe

HIV Policy: The Path Forward

Christine Lubinski, Judith Aberg, Arlene D. Bardeguez, Richard Elion, Patricia Emmanuel, Daniel Kuritzkes, Michael Saag, Kathleen E. Squires, Andrea Weddle, Jennifer Rainey, M. Renee Zerehi, J. Fred Ralston, David A. Fleming, David Bronson, Molly Cook, Charles Cutler, Yul Ejnes, Robert Gluckman, Mark Liebow, Kenneth Musana, Mark E. Mayer, Mark W. Purtle, P. Preston Reynolds, Lavanya Viswanathan...