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...

The Ambulatory Patient Group (APGs) are a patient classification system that was developed to be used as the basis of a prospective payment system (PPS) for the facility costs of outpatient care. This article will review the key characteristics of a patient classification system for ambulatory care, describe the APG development process, and describe a payment model based on the APGs. We present...

When Congress created the Medicare Prospective Payment System (PPS) for hospitals in 1983, it established separate standardized payment amounts (national average costs per Medicare case) for inpatient services provided by urban and rural hospitals. The urban standardized amount was 25.3 percent greater than the rural standardized amount. This variation in payment was challenged by rural health ...

We describe the new technology add-on payment (NTAP) program used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide additional payment for breakthrough technologies in the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS). We also evaluate spending under the program. Our findings suggest that the criteria established by the CMS to limit qualifying technologies, comb...

Mobile payment allows users to perform payment transactions through their mobile devices. However, it brings up many emerging issues regarding security and performance of mobile payment systems that can be classified into at least two main problems. The first problem comes from the limitations of wireless environments that are primarily from mobile devices which have limited system resources an...

As an emerging decentralized technology, peerto-peer architecture arises as a new model for distributed computing and transaction, consequently there is a need for a scheme to incorporate payment services in this environment to enable electronic payment via peer-to-peer systems. In this paper, a transferable token is proposed for peer-to-peer payment system, which can float from a peer to anoth...

background provincial health accounts (pha) as a subset of national health accounts (nha) present financial information for health sectors. it leads to a logical decision making for policy-makers in order to achieve health system goals, especially fair financial contribution (ffc). this study aimed to examine health accounts in kerman province.   methods the present analytical study was carried...

This purpose of this research was the usage of NFC Technology which installed on the smart phones under the android operation system. It was used for paying bills which used at computer labs of computer science and technology program like printing charges: A4 color, and black and white. By using the android smart phones that supported with NFC Technology, students could touch onto the ACR122U d...