In spite of numerous discussions and programs aimed at reducing public health care costs
in Germany, the country has seen a massive increase in health care costs at an annual …

Background Since 1 January 2004, inpatient treatment services in German hospitals have
been reimbursed using a prospective payment method based on diagnosis-related groups …

1.1 The starting point Really the whole hospital problem rests on one question: What
happens to the cases?[...] We must formulate some method of hospital report showing as …

DRG systems were introduced across Europe based on expected transparency and
efficiency gains. However, European DRG systems have not been systematically analysed …

Since the first use of diagnosis related groups (DRGs) for hospital payment in the United
States in the early 1980s, 1 DRG-type hospital payment systems have become the main …

Since 1983, when Medicare adopted diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) as the basis for
paying hospitals in the United States, DRG-based hospital payment systems have become …

Physicians: individuals have free choice of ambulatory physician. General practitioners have
no formal gatekeeper function. However, in 2004 SFs were required to offer their members …

To give insight into the development of diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) in Europe during
the 1980s, events must be related to the broader historical background of health care …

Background Switzerland introduces a DRG (Diagnosis Related Groups) based system for
hospital financing in 2012 in order to increase efficiency and transparency of Swiss health …

(1) Background: Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG), one possibility of a hospital payment
system, are currently used in most European countries. Introduced to the Czech system in …