Case-Mix-Optimization in a German Hospital Network

Katherina Brink ()
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Katherina Brink: Universität Bielefeld

A chapter in Operations Research Proceedings 2010, 2011, pp 85-90 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The dire financial situation of the German health care system, where the insurance companies and the federal states act as the paying authorities for the operative costs and investment costs, enhances the need for hospitals to increase their efficiency and cut costs. This has resulted in a rising number of co-operations in the hospital market. To exploit the synergetic potential deriving from a co-operation with other hospitals in a region, the amount and type of cases treated at the hospitals play an important role. The decision regarding the composition and allocation of the case-mix among the members of a hospital network has to be made under consideration of logical, legal, organizational, and capacity restrictions. In this paper, a management accounting model is introduced and described on the basis of already existing research as an aid for this decision making process. Additionally, modifications necessitated by changes in influencing factors are presented.

Keywords: Federal State; Management Accounting; Statutory Health Insurance; Hospital Network; Capacity Demand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20009-0_14

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