Global payment for health services as a solution in the financial crisis in Europe
<p align="left">In these financial difficult years many European governments used global ceilings to control costs of health services. Two scenarios are thinkable. The first is that all individual providers get a budget for their own costs: general practitioners, specialists, hospita...
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Ubiquity Press
2012-10-01
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| author | Guus Schrijvers |
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| description | <p align="left">In these financial difficult years many European governments used global ceilings to control costs of health services. Two scenarios are thinkable. The first is that all individual providers get a budget for their own costs: general practitioners, specialists, hospitals, nursing homes and mental health institutes. The second scenario is to work with global budgets for health care providers servicing a total population. Scientists and policy makers in Europe, North America and Asia need time to design new payment systems based on the idea of global budgeting, bundled payment and shared savings.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-668537e2732141cc92e959da251ed56c2022-12-22T01:43:01ZengUbiquity PressInternational Journal of Integrated Care1568-41562012-10-01128945Global payment for health services as a solution in the financial crisis in EuropeGuus Schrijvers<p align="left">In these financial difficult years many European governments used global ceilings to control costs of health services. Two scenarios are thinkable. The first is that all individual providers get a budget for their own costs: general practitioners, specialists, hospitals, nursing homes and mental health institutes. The second scenario is to work with global budgets for health care providers servicing a total population. Scientists and policy makers in Europe, North America and Asia need time to design new payment systems based on the idea of global budgeting, bundled payment and shared savings.</p>http://www.ijic.org/index.php/ijic/article/view/1077bundled paymentcost controlfinancial crisisfinancinghealth servicesIntegrated Carepayment systems |
| spellingShingle | Guus Schrijvers Global payment for health services as a solution in the financial crisis in Europe International Journal of Integrated Care bundled payment cost control financial crisis financing health services Integrated Care payment systems |
| title | Global payment for health services as a solution in the financial crisis in Europe |
| title_full | Global payment for health services as a solution in the financial crisis in Europe |
| title_fullStr | Global payment for health services as a solution in the financial crisis in Europe |
| title_full_unstemmed | Global payment for health services as a solution in the financial crisis in Europe |
| title_short | Global payment for health services as a solution in the financial crisis in Europe |
| title_sort | global payment for health services as a solution in the financial crisis in europe |
| topic | bundled payment cost control financial crisis financing health services Integrated Care payment systems |
| url | http://www.ijic.org/index.php/ijic/article/view/1077 |
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