The 2010 expansion of activity-based hospital payment in Israel: an evaluation of effects at the ward level

Abstract Background In 2010, Israel intensified its adoption of Procedure-Related Group (PRG) based hospital payments, a local version of DRG (Diagnosis-related group). PRGs were created for certain procedures by clinical fields such as urology, orthopedics, and ophthalmology. Non-procedural hospita...

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Main Authors: Ruth Waitzberg, Wilm Quentin, Elad Daniels, Vadim Perman, Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Reinhard Busse, Dan Greenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-05-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-019-4083-4