BACKGROUND:: Diagnosis related groups (DRGs) are a well-established provider payment
system. Because of their immanent potential of cost reduction, they have been widely …

Background: Diagnosis-related group (DRG)-based hospital payment systems have
gradually become the principal means of reimbursing hospitals in many European countries …

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

The aim of the article was to present and compare cost accounting models which are used in
the area of healthcare for pricing purposes in different countries. Cost information generated …

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 …

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this paper is to develop ways to improve patient-level cost
apportioning (PLCA) in the English and German inpatient 'DRG'cost accounting systems, 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 …

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

Swiss hospitals were required to implement a prospective payment system for
reimbursement using a diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) classification system by the …

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 …