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UNINA9910454761003321 |
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Titolo |
Designing and implementing health care provider payment systems [[electronic resource] ] : how-to manuals / / edited by John C. Langenbrunner, Cheryl Cashin, and Sheila O'Dougherty |
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Washington DC, : World Bank, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-11472-7 |
9786612114724 |
0-8213-7824-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (348 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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LangenbrunnerJack |
CashinCheryl |
O'DoughertySheila |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Medical economics |
Medical fees |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Abbreviations; Glossary; Overview: What, How, and Who: An Introduction to Provider Payment Systems; Boxes; Tables; Figures; 1. Primary Health Care Per Capita Payment Systems; Screenshots; 2. Case-Based Hospital Payment Systems; 3. Hospital Global Budgeting; 4. A Primer on Contracting; 5. Health Management Information Systems: Linking Purchasers and Providers; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Strategic purchasing of health services involves a continuous search for the best ways to maximize health system performance by deciding which interventions should be purchased, from whom these should be purchased, and how to pay for them. In such an arrangement, the passive cashier is replaced by an intelligent purchaser that can focus scarce resources on existing and emerging priorities rather than continuing entrenched historical spending patterns.Having experimented with different ways of paying providers of health care services, countries increasingly want to know not only what to do when |
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