Hospital financing based on standard costs for diagnosis related groups
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Review of Diagnosis-Related Group-Based Financing of Hospital Care
Since the 1990s, diagnosis-related group (DRG)-based payment systems were gradually introduced in many countries. The main design characteristics of a DRG-based payment system are an exhaustive patient case classification system (ie, the system of diagnosis-related groupings) and the payment formula, which is based on the base rate multiplied by a relative cost weight specific for each DRG. Cas...
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عنوان ژورنال: Management in Health
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1453-4541,2067-7561
DOI: 10.5233/mih.2009.0005