Morocco has experienced a steady stream of reforms, including considerable changes in the health sector. Hospitals have been notably reformed, given their importance and stakes. As result, several deep costly reforms promoted modernization management organization to maximize efficiency. Thus, hospital reform improved by supporting planning capacities introducing new tools control processes. How...

This paper investigates the link between performance measures and decision-making processes in the Norwegian hospital sector. The research findings are expected to add knowledge to the implementation of performance measurements and management systems in this context. The implementation of performance-based management systems acts as an element of reform that is similar to the New Public Managem...

BACKGROUND This article examines uncomfortable realities that the European hospital sector currently faces and the potential impact of wide-spread rationalization policies such as (hospital) payment reform and privatization. METHODS Review of relevant international literature. RESULTS Based on the evidence we present, rationalization policies such as (hospital) payment reform and privatizat...

INTRODUCTION Employee satisfaction is considered to be an important component in the promotion of service quality and increased efficiency and effectiveness in the reform plan for a healthcare system. Neglecting this issue could result in a lack of success in achieving the healthcare system's objectives. The healthcare reform plan is being implemented to achieve the objectives of the healthcare...

We implement an empirical test for selection into health insurance using changes in coverage induced by the introduction of mandated health insurance in Massachusetts. Our test examines changes in the cost of the newly insured relative to those who were insured prior to the reform. We find that counties with larger increases in insurance coverage over the reform period face the smallest increas...

Because the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 requires implementation of a Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for hospital outpatient services, the authors evaluated the potential impact of outpatient PPS on rural hospitals. Areas examined include: (1) How dependent are rural hospitals on outpatient revenue? (2) Are they more likely than urban hospitals to be vulnerable to payment reform...

We evaluate whether hospital adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) leads to increases in billing where financial gains are large or where hassle costs of complete coding are low. The 2007 Medicare payment reform varied both financial incentives and hassle costs of coding. We find no significant impact of financial incentives on billing levels, inconsistent with bill inflation. However, ...