Capturing patients' needs in casemix: a systematic literature review on the value of adding functioning information in reimbursement systems.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Contemporary casemix systems for health services need to ensure that payment rates adequately account for actual resource consumption based on patients' needs for services. It has been argued that functioning information, as one important determinant of health service provision and resource use, should be taken into account when developing casemix systems. However, there has to date been little systematic collation of the evidence on the extent to which the addition of functioning information into existing casemix systems adds value to those systems with regard to the predictive power and resource variation explained by the groupings of these systems. Thus, the objective of this research was to examine the value of adding functioning information into casemix systems with

SUBMITTER: Hopfe M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4741002 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature