Phasing Out Market Mechanisms in the Italian National Health Service

Eugenio Anessi-Pessina, Elena Cantù and Claudio Joninii

Public Money & Management, 2004, vol. 24, issue 5, 309-316

Abstract: The Italian National Health Service introduced quad-markets, regionalization, and managerialism in the 1990s. Under quasi-markets, large providers have been separated from purchasers and funded by ‘activity’—the quantity, mix, and possibly appropriateness of services provided. Under regionalization, each of Italy's 21 regional governments is able to design its own funding arrangements. The regions have generally been trying to mitigate the effects of quasi-markets and are now increasingly ‘governing’ them. The system is producing some desirable results, including a shift from ordinary to same-day hospitalizations and a reduction in length of stay. Hospital admissions increased initially, but only where the regions encouraged this. Financial effects are more controversial.

Date: 2004
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