02861nam 2200601Ia 450 991045476100332120200520144314.01-282-11472-797866121147240-8213-7824-4(CKB)1000000000774687(EBL)459564(OCoLC)429042617(SSID)ssj0000086268(PQKBManifestationID)11121505(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000086268(PQKBWorkID)10025927(PQKB)10481229(MiAaPQ)EBC459564(Au-PeEL)EBL459564(CaPaEBR)ebr10306269(EXLCZ)99100000000077468720081201d2009 uf 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDesigning and implementing health care provider payment systems[electronic resource] how-to manuals /edited by John C. Langenbrunner, Cheryl Cashin, and Sheila O'DoughertyWashington DC World Bankc20091 online resource (348 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8213-7815-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexStrategic 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 whenMedical economicsMedical feesElectronic books.Medical economics.Medical fees.338.4/73621Langenbrunner Jack916181Cashin Cheryl990807O'Dougherty Sheila1055810World Bank.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454761003321Designing and implementing health care provider payment systems2489511UNINA