Association between fee-for-service expenditures and morbidity burden in primary care

Troels Kristensen (), Kim Olsen, Henrik Schroll, Janus Thomsen and Anders Halling
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The European Journal of Health Economics, 2014, vol. 15, issue 6, 599-610

Abstract: Morbidity measures were significant patient-related FFS expenditure drivers. The association between FFS expenditure and morbidity burden appears to be at the same level as similar studies in the hospital sector, where fees are based on average costing. However, our results indicate that there may be room for improvement of the association between politically negotiated FFS expenditures and morbidity in primary care. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

Keywords: General practice; Expenditure variation; Resource utilisation band (RUB); Fee-for-services (FFS); The Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Groups ® (ACG ® ) system; D61; H51; I120; I180 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/s10198-013-0499-7

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