Designing and Implementing Health Care Provider Payment Systems - How-To Manuals (Paperback)

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 paying providers, but also how to do it, particularly how to design, manage, and implement the transition from current to reformed systems. 'Designing and Implementing Health Care Provider Payment Systems: How-To Manuals' addresses this need. The book has chapters on three of the most effective provider payment systems: primary care per capita (capitation) payment, case-based hospital payment, and hospital global budgets. It also includes a primer on a second policy lever used by purchasers, namely, contracting. This primer can be especially useful with one provider payment method: hospital global budgets. The volume s final chapter provides an outline for designing, launching, and running a health management information system, as well as the necessary infrastructure for strategic purchasing."

General

Imprint:	World Bank Publications
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2009
First published:	May 2009
Editors:	John C. Langenbrunner • Cheryl Cashin • Sheila O'Dougherty
Dimensions:	251 x 175 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	344
ISBN-13:	978-0-8213-7815-1
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8213-7815-5
Barcode:	9780821378151

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