Programme Budgeting and Casemix. Health Benefit Groups and Healthcare Resource Groups
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Aims: To outline the scope for use of new methods of grouping patient information (HRGs and HBGs) in program budgeting, disease costing and healthcare needs assessment. Methods: Review of methods of costing diseases, setting priorities and of developments in costing and valuing groups of patients/treatments. Results: HRGs, which are shortly to be available in England covering all acute hospital activity provide a basis of improved costing of diseases and programs. The design of HBGs, which are still in developmental stage, is capable of providing routinely available data on the numbers of people capable of benefitting from each treatment, covering the full range of diseases. Conclusions: HRGs provide valuable costing tools in the short term, enabling standardised costing of diseases and intervention. HBGs offer great scope for dramatically improving the information on the numbers of individuals requiring care and the likely population outcomes for decision
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