In this paper we investigate the relationship between the DRG system for hospital reimbursement and investment in … this scheme, which are frequent in DRG tariff systems designed around the world, lead to a trade-off between the objective …

captured in DRG scores. Ranking of hospitals based on observed versus expected LOS remained largely unaffected when controlling …

care providers using the hospital's Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) and Mean Relative Values (MRV). The econometric model … hospitals in Romania during 2010-2012, being considered DRG dependent variable and independent variables: C and MRV. Analyzing …

in the DRG reimbursement rates and changes in the number of registered treatment episodes for all DRG-codes and hospitals … when the reimbursement rate is increased, and decrease it (or increase it less) when DRG-rates are reduced. Across all … treatments, during all years included in our primary analysis, the increase in volume is about four times as large for DRG …

Purpose – This paper aims to discuss the implementation process for the new diagnosis-related groups (DRG) accounting … with the DRG system. At this point, the actual DRG-based systems for the product categorization and the full-cost pricing … allowed the system to become a reality (national comparability). Visibility helped the DRG system to gain approval and become …