Klein-Hitpaß, Uwe; Scheller-Kreinsen, David - In: Health Policy 119 (2015) 3, pp. 252-257
A central structural point in all DRG-based hospital payment systems is the conversion of relative weights into actual payments. In this context policy makers need to address (amongst other things) (a) how the price level of DRG-payments from one period to the following period is changed and (b)...