Health care provider payment schemes and their changes since 2010 across nine Central and Eastern European countries - a comparative analysis.

ABSTRACT: Health care provider payment schemes consist of a complex set of arrangements used to influence provider behavior towards specific health policy objectives. The study aimed at: 1) providing a structured, comparative overview of current payment schemes within the public health system in selected Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries for different health care providers; 2) identifying and comparing major changes in payment schemes since 2010. Methods included: 1) data collection form development; 2) desk research; 3) national experts' consultations; 4) comparative analysis. The results indicate that the nine CEE countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, and Romania) show numerous similarities in provider payment method mix and in the general d

SUBMITTER: Ndayishimiye C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11878279 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature