03141oam 22007095 450 991077806280332120200520144314.01-282-11472-797866121147240-8213-7824-410.1596/978-0-8213-7815-1(CKB)1000000000774687(EBL)459564(OCoLC)429042617(SSID)ssj0000086268(PQKBManifestationID)11121505(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000086268(PQKBWorkID)10025927(PQKB)10481229(MiAaPQ)EBC459564(Au-PeEL)EBL459564(CaPaEBR)ebr10306269(The World Bank)ocn278980808(US-djbf)15549173(EXLCZ)99100000000077468720081201d2009 uf 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDesigning and implementing health care provider payment systems : how-to manuals /edited by John C. Langenbrunner, Cheryl Cashin, and Sheila O'DoughertyWashington, D.C. :World Bank,c2009.xxii, 321 pages illustrations ;26 cmDescription 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 whenWorld Bank e-Library.Medical economicsMedical feesMedical economics.Medical fees.338.4/73621Langenbrunner Jack1522793Cashin Cheryl1501564O'Dougherty Sheila1522794World Bank.DNLM/DLCDLCNLMBTCTAC#PYDXCPBWXCDXDLCBOOK9910778062803321Designing and implementing health care provider payment systems3762669UNINA