In many sectors of the health care system, prices at which providers are reimbursed by payers are not determined by the market mechanism, but rather by a defined administrative process. Depending on the sector, prices are set politically and are negotiated between different actors or are...

The common approach for aligning territories is the balancing approach which establishes territories that are almost balanced relative to one or more territory attributes like potential or workload. Although this approach has been extremely populär for at least the last 25 years, it has been...