CRAINICH, David; LELEU, Hervé; MAULEON, Ana - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2006
In a paper published by Ma (1994) it was argued that the prospective payment system in the hospital industry was superior to the cost based reimbursement system to achieve both cost reduction and quality improvement ob jectives. In the analysis, it was assumed that quality and costs decisions...