The paper analyzes the impact of provider altruism and motivation on out ­comes pay-for-performance reimbursement in healthcare, where a fixed price contract quantity is supplemented with relative performance quail­ty. We develop theoretical model which forecasts crowding most alt­ruistic providers. Using example Medicare’s nationwide natural experiment quality (the data for 3000 acute care hos...

abstract background: committing an error is part of the human nature. no health care provider, despite the mastery of their skills, is immune from committing it. medical error in the labor and obstetrics wards as well as other health units is inevitable and reduces the quality of health care, leading to accident. sometimes these events, like the death of mother, fetus, and newborn, would be bey...

there are different approaches to business model categorization. [5] in a point of view, the e-business model patterns can be categorized to content provider, direct to customer (d2c), full-service provider, intermediary, shared infrastructure, value net integrator, virtual community, and whole of enterprise.

Tracing the problems of public services in Indonesia can actually be seen several periods governance, for example starting during New Order era and finally reform period. The citizen charter service contract is one innovations management towards responsive delivery accordance with needs community. In requires active involvement citizens, also empowering citizens through introduction rights obli...

objective: this study sought to assess the attitude of healthcare providers towards providing contraceptives for unmarried adolescents in four local government areas in ibadan, nigeria. materials and methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted among 490 healthcare providers in 24 randomly selected healthcare facilities using self-administered, pre-tested questionnaires. results: ...

BACKGROUND Good health and equal health care are the cornerstones of the Swedish Health and Medical Service Act. Recent studies show that the average level of health, measured as longevity, improves in Sweden, however, social inequalities in health remain a major issue. An important issue is how health care services can contribute to reducing inequalities in health, and the impact of a recent P...

INTRODUCTION In 2009, China officially launched the New Health Care Reform (NHCR). One important purpose of the reform was to reduce financial burden of health care through health insurance expansion and health care provider regulations. This study aimed to provide evidence on the effect of the NHCR reform on catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) by comparing the occurrence and inequality of CH...

Interprofessional care has been promoted by some policy makers and health professionals as a response to rising health care costs and threats to patient safety. Proponents suggest that interprofessional models of care can reduce fragmentation and lower costs through improved coordination between different health professionals. These models encourage the collaboration of supplementary skills bet...

Since the early 1990s, policy analysts seeking important opportunities for reform in the Medicare program have looked at the experience of private markets and managed care in the private sector. Managed care organizations (“MCOs”), in general, and health maintenance organizations (“HMOs”), in particular, seem to have hit the wall in recent years in their ability to contain costs. They have expe...