Ranking Sources of Hospital Quality Information for Orthopedic Surgery Patients: Consequences for the System of Managed Competition

Romy Bes () and Bernard van den Berg

The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, 2013, vol. 6, issue 2, 75-80

Abstract: Health insurers should take the main finding—that GPs are the most important source of hospital quality information—into account when they contract care providers and develop strategies for channeling patients towards preferred providers. A well-functioning system of managed competition will benefit patients, as it involves incentives for care providers to increase healthcare quality and to produce at the lowest cost per unit of quality. Copyright Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013

Date: 2013
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