The goal of this study was to examine the impact of research activities on hospital costs and lengths of stay in French public hospitals. Our data consist of a random sample of 30 000 inpatient stays in 38 hospitals that were extracted from the French Hospital Cost Survey database. Hospital...

Since 2004, French public and private hospitals are submitted to a prospective per-case based payment system based on a drg like classification scheme. A comparative analysis with the Medicare prospective payment scheme shows that the implementation of the so-called Activity Based Payment Scheme...