Fattore, Giovanni; Torbica, Aleksandra - In: Health Care Management Science 9 (2006) 3, pp. 251-258
In 1995 the Italian National Health Service begun to fund its hospitals on a per case basis, classified according to a DRGs system. Five out of 21 Italian regions developed a regional DRG tariff system, while the majority adopted the system set at national level. The article presents how tariffs...