Die sich verändernde Altersstruktur in Deutschland bedingt eine Veränderung der Finanzierungsmodalitäten im deutschen Gesundheitswesen. Ein Schritt dazu ist die Einführung der Fallpauschalen (englisch DRG: Diagnosis Related Groups) zur Entlohnung von stationären Leistungen. Allgemein wird...

The paper attempts to provide an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines with particular emphasis on hospitals being managed by the DOH. The paper begins with an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines, describing the size, location, and utilization of hospital services. To...

This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the higher expected profitability of PHI relative to SHI...

Hospitals account for 40 % of all healthcare expenditures and play a central role in healthcare provision. Therefore, the way hospitals are payed has major implications for the care they provide. Yet the knowledge about system wide effects of payment reforms is surprisingly thin. This study...