Send to friendEditor John Langenbrunner provides an overview of a recently published book that he and other editors Cheryl Cashin and Sheila O'Dougherty have put together - Overview of Designing and Implementing Health Care Provider Payments Systems – How to Manuals. The book focuses on provider payment methods and systems, highlighting how they can be powerful tools to promote health system development and achieve policy objectives. His summary also describes the payment systems currently in use in the cases of both primary health care providers and for hospital services, emphasizing the factors that should be considered when deciding which payment systems to choose.
Summaries of other chapters:
Chapter 2: Case-Based Hospital Payment Systems: Summary of Key Aspects of Design and Implementation
Summary by Cheryl Cashin
Chapter 3: Hospital Global Budgeting
Summary by Robert Dredge
Chapter 5: Health Management Information Systems (HMIS): Linking Payers and Providers (a 2009 update)
Summary by Dennis Streveler
Presentations:
Case-based Hospital Payment Systems
By Cheryl Cashin
HMIS [Health Management Information Systems]: Linking Payers and Providers
By Dennis Streveler
