Lack of timely data is hampering payment by results

Payment by Results Data Assurance Framework

5 Payment by Results

There is a wide range of mechanisms that can be used to pay for hospital care. In the United Kingdom, hospitals have historically been paid a fixed budget based on the previous years’ costs and activity, sometimes adjusted for planned changes in services (Raftery et al 1996). During the first internal market in the 1990s, purchasers mostly used block contracts – a negotiated amount that was pai...

Payment by volume ( not results )

Payment by results, a system for paying healthcare trusts, is intended as a fair and consistent basis for hospital funding. It relies on a national tariff structured around a case-mix measure known as healthcare resource groups. It is often argued that if payment by results works as planned, the National Health Service will become more efficient and productive. However, the use of a case-mix me...

Payment by results: qualified ambition?

The commentaries on our original paper are interesting and informative. That of Malcomson illustrates nicely the costing and case-mix issues that are critical to the successful design of activity-based funding arrangements. The second commentary describes some more general issues and the scope for reformers to learn from international experience. The policy documents put out by the English Depa...

a study on insurer solvency by panel data model: the case of iranian insurance market

the aim of this thesis is an approach for assessing insurer’s solvency for iranian insurance companies. we use of economic data with both time series and cross-sectional variation, thus by using the panel data model will survey the insurer solvency.