| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 321 pages) : illustrations |
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World Bank e-Library.
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| Contents |
Overview : what, how, and who : an introduction to provider payment systems -- Primary health care per capita payment systems -- Case-based hospital payment systems -- Hospital global budgeting -- A primer on contracting -- Health management information systems : linking purchasers and providers |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Medical economics.
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Medical fees.
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Medical policy.
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Rate Setting and Review -- methods
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Reimbursement Mechanisms
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Health Policy
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National Health Programs
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Reimbursement, Incentive
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Developing Countries
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Economics, Medical
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Fees, Medical
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Service.
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Medical policy
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Medical economics
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Medical fees
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Langenbrunner, Jack.
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Cashin, Cheryl.
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O'Dougherty, Sheila.
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World Bank.
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| LC no. |
2008052039 |
| ISBN |
9780821378151 |
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0821378155 |
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9780821378243 |
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0821378244 |
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1282114727 |
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9781282114722 |
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9786612114724 |
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661211472X |
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