classification of cholecystectomy patients raise concerns whether all systems rely on the most appropriate classification variables … deal with cholecystectomy patients. The study aims to assist surgeons and national authorities to optimize their DRG … classification algorithms and indicators of resource consumption were compared for those DRGs that individually contained at least 1 …

allowing hospitals to dump high-severity patients. Finally, we show that if the efficiency of the cost-reduction effort varies … show that when the insurer designs the healthcare payment policy to let hospitals dump high-cost patients, there is a trade …-off between the disutility of dumped patients (changes in hospitals' rent extracting due to low-severity patients) and the shift …