This paper attempts to ascertain what light the empirical literature sheds on the efficacy of
performance budgeting. Performance budgeting refers to procedures or mechanisms …

Following the US experience, activity-based funding has become the most common
mechanism for reimbursing hospitals in Europe. Focusing on five European countries …

The Health Systems in Transition (‎ HiT)‎ country profiles provide an analytical description of
each health system and of policy initiatives in progress or under development. They aim to …

The 2010 Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare, as its detractors like to call it) is a sweeping
reform to the US health care system. Despite the fact that nearly every other developed …

This paper focuses on a broad movement toward a fundamentally different way of paying
healthcare providers. The approach reaches beyond the old dichotomies about whether …

In 2009 China announced plans to reform provider payment methods at public hospitals by
moving from fee-for-service (FFS) to prospective and aggregated payment methods that …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the impacts of diagnosis-related group (DRG) payments on health
care provider's behavior under a universal coverage system in Taiwan. METHODS: This …

Policy Points Evidence suggests that bundled payment contracting can slow the growth of
payer costs relative to fee‐for‐service contracting, although bundled payment models may …

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 …

Abstract The Hospital Value‐Based Purchasing (VBP) Program, one of several federal
regulations mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, uses Medicare …