Re-reading Carl Menger’s <i>Grundsätze</i> – another book that “cries out to be surpassed”*

Fee-for-Service Payment – An Evil Practice that Must be Stamped Out?

Co-opting physicians to regulate Fee-for-Service (FFS) payment is more feasible and simpler to administer than capitation, Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs) and pay-for-performance. The key lies in designing and revising the fee schedule, which not only defines and sets the fee for each item, but also the conditions of billing. Adherence to these regulations must be strictly audited in order to c...

Metadata of the Book that will be visualized online

Book Reading in Urban China

Authors’ Note: We wish to thank Hui Niu for her assistance in preparing data files and Yu Lee for his extensive help in all phases of data management and statistical analysis. An earlier version of this material was presented at “Repositioning Hong Kong and Shanghai in Modern Chinese History,” a conference at the University of Hong Kong. Financial support for both data collection and analysis w...

Reading the book of life

With the publication of the human genome sequence, we are passing into a new phase in the analysis of what is popularly being called the ‘Book of Life’. However symbolic the shift, it is nevertheless palpable: the data will be in a more or less contiguous, more or less stable form, constituting a reference text against which coding and regulatory regions, polymorphisms, model organism sequences...

fee-for-service payment – an evil practice that must be stamped out?

co-opting physicians to regulate fee-for-service (ffs) payment is more feasible and simpler to administer than capitation, diagnosis-related groups (drgs) and pay-for-performance. the key lies in designing and revising the fee schedule, which not only defines and sets the fee for each item, but also the conditions of billing. adherence to these regulations must be strictly audited in order to c...