In the early 1990s, DRG based hospital financing was introduced into some hospital districts
in Finland. The 1993 state subsidy reform decentralising all hospital financing to …

A central structural point in all DRG-based hospital payment systems is the conversion of
relative weights into actual payments. In this context policy makers need to address …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the German diagnosis related groups (G-DRG) cost
accounting scheme by assessing its resource allocation at hospital level and its tariff …

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 …

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 …

Almost 30 years after the first introduction of a diagnosis-related group (DRG)-based
hospital payment system in the United States in 1983 (Fetter, 1991), DRG systems have …

OBJECTIVES: Until recently, in-patient NHS hospital care in Greece was reimbursed via an
anachronistic and under-priced retrospective per diem system, which has been held …

In France, a DRG-based payment system was introduced in 2004/2005 for funding acute
services in all hospitals with the objectives of improving hospital efficiency, transparency and …

Initially, in most European countries, diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) were introduced to
better describe hospital services and to improve the measurement and management of …

The German DRG system was introduced in 2000 and has been the obligatory
reimbursement system for all acute care hospitals since 2004. It was intended to improve the …