Perelman, Julian; Shmueli, Amir; Closon, Marie-Christine - In: Social Science & Medicine 66 (2008) 1, pp. 88-98
The imperfect risk adjustment of prospective payment for hospitals may have dramatic consequences on equity. If the hospital is able to distinguish subgroups of patients with different expected costs within a group for which the risk-adjusted payment per admission is the same, it is likely to...