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

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 …

Part One of this book has provided comparative information from 12 European countries
about the specific characteristics of their diagnosis-related group (DRG) systems, about how …

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 …

BACKGROUND Payment mechanisms represent one of the fundamental building blocks of
any health system, introducing powerful incentives for actors in the system and fierce …

Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) were first used to pay hospitals in 1983 under the
Medicare Program in the United States. This development was born out of a need to move …

Cost-accounting systems could enable hospital managers to collect, summarize, analyse
and control the most relevant information regarding the allocation of resources and …

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 …

Ever since DRG-based payment systems were first introduced in the United States in 1983,
the medical community has expressed concern about the potential impact of these price …

Technological innovation in health care is highly valued by patients, clinicians and
politicians (Rettig, 1994), as advances in medical technology have greatly improved the …