OBJECTIVE Using insurance claims for hemorrhoidectomies, we examined the effect of Taiwan's Bureau of National Health Insurance's case payment system, a fixed case payment rate method used to reimburse health care providers for in-patient care. DESIGN This observational natural experimental study examined changes in medical care that occurred between two phases: the 9 months before case payme...

Copy right Idea Grou p Inc . Copy right Idea Grou p Inc . Internet online sales totaled $7.8 billion for 1998, with the average online shopper spending $629 (Fasig, 1999). During the 1999 holiday season, online sales were reportedly double that of 1998 at many “e-tailers” (although final statistics had not been published as this chapter went to press). As Web-based consumer sales grow, so does ...

This article summarizes the demographic and economic characteristics of the half million persons on the rolls of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program in January 1981 whose only payment was a federally administered State supplement. All of these persons were ineligible for a Federal SSI payment because their countable income from other sources exceeded $258 (the Federal benefit rate pl...

The COVID-19 pandemic extensively affects the world, particularly consumer payment patterns. Since, lack of physical contact during era, consumers' need for a substitute spending pattern has increased. People are required to utilize debit cards, credit internet banking, and other mobile banking services as an alternative transactions when they buy products online make virtual payments. 2019 is ...

Medicare's use of diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) and the resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) has led to interest in developing a national all-payer system in which insurers use the same payment methods and payment rates. Using data for 81 high-volume DRGs from 457 California hospitals, we conclude that a single set of rates for hospital care would not be appropriate. On average, Medica...

We investigate whether physicians' financial incentives influence health care supply, technology diffusion, and resulting patient outcomes. In 1997, Medicare consolidated the geographic regions across which it adjusts physician payments, generating area-specific price shocks. Areas with higher payment shocks experience significant increases in health care supply. On average, a 2 percent increas...

Background Related to escalating health care costs and the questionable effectiveness of multiple interventions including lumbar facet joint interventions, cost effectiveness or cost utility analysis has become the cornerstone of evidence-based medicine influencing coverage decisions. Methods Cost utility of therapeutic lumbar facet joint nerve blocks in managing chronic low back pain was per...

The efficient management of working capital is very vital for business survival and thus a factor an overall boost in profitability. study analysed the effect on firm’s financial performance, case seven selected manufacturing firms Tanzania listed with Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange period from 2011 to 2020. paper adopted secondary data annual reports Tanzania. Purposive sampling techniques were ...

The Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) contains incentives for hospitals to improve efficiency by placing them at financial risk to earn a positive margin on services rendered to Medicare patients. Concerns about the financial viability of small rural hospitals led to the implementation of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program (Flex Program) of 1997, which allows facilities des...

Several federal bodies provide ongoing analyses of the Medicare DRG prospective hospital payment system. Many states are using DRG prospective "all payor systems" for hospital reimbursement (based on the federal model). In All Payor Systems, Medicare, Medicaid, Blue Cross and other commercial insurers pay by the DRG mode; New York State has been All Payor since 1/1/88. This study simulated DRG ...