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

• Main Authors: Ruth Waitzberg (Author), Wilm Quentin (Author), Elad Daniels (Author), Vadim Perman (Author), Shuli Brammli-Greenberg (Author), Reinhard Busse (Author), Dan Greenberg (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...