Payment by results: a guide for emergency physicians
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5 Payment by Results
There is a wide range of mechanisms that can be used to pay for hospital care. In the United Kingdom, hospitals have historically been paid a fixed budget based on the previous years’ costs and activity, sometimes adjusted for planned changes in services (Raftery et al 1996). During the first internal market in the 1990s, purchasers mostly used block contracts – a negotiated amount that was pai...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2007.050906