The ambulatory physician payment system in the German Social Health Insurance (SHI) offers incentives to reduce practice activity at the end of a billing period. Most services within a period are reimbursed at full cost only up to a certain threshold. Furthermore, capitated payments make...

For some considerable time now the interface between ambulatory and hospital care has been mooted as a cause of inefficiencies in the German health system and there have been calls for a softening of the strict separation between the two sectors. This debate emphasizes the need for detailed...

The ambulatory physician payment system in the German Social Health Insurance (SHI) offers incentives to reduce practice activity at the end of a billing period. Most services within a period are reimbursed at full cost only up to a certain threshold. Furthermore, capitated payments make...

For some considerable time now the interface between ambulatory and hospital care has been mooted as a cause of inefficiencies in the German health system and there have been calls for a softening of the strict separation between the two sectors. This debate emphasizes the need for detailed...

Long waiting lines are a common feature and a major concern in many public health care delivery systems. The waiting lines are often characterized as inefficient, because they are a burden to patients without generating any gains for providers. There is an ongoing debate in Germany regarding the...

Uzbekistan inherited a hospital-based health system from the Soviet Union. We explore the health system-related challenges faced during the scale-up of ambulatory (outpatient) treatment for drug-susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan. Semi-structured...

Uzbekistan inherited a hospital-based health system from the Soviet Union. We explore the health system-related challenges faced during the scale-up of ambulatory (outpatient) treatment for drug-susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan. Semi-structured...

The aim of the report is to review existing approaches and available policy options to improve access to health care services and financial protection against health shocks for informal-sector workers (ISWs). Along with their families, ISWs represent the majority of the population in many...

This review represents an attempt to bridge the significant knowledge gaps on the private health sector in Sri Lanka, and foster a dialogue on opportunities for collaboration between the government and the private sector. It accomplishes this through a systematic collection and analysis of...

Der Gesundheitsmonitor informiert seit sieben Jahren aus der Perspektive von Versicherten und Patienten über die Gesundheitsversorgung in Deutschland und aktuelle Gesundheitsthemen. Die Grundlage bilden repräsentative Befragungen, die die Bertelsmann Stiftung seit 2001 halbjährlich...

Das Werk untersucht, welchen gesundheitlichen Nutzen Patienten aus der Hausarztzentrierten Versorgung ziehen und stellt die Ergebnisse der konventionellen Regelversorgung gegenüber. Die Untersuchung fokussiert dabei auf den Patienten als Nutzenempfänger und bildet seine ambulante Versorgung in...

Die Metropole Ruhr ist bereits heute ein wichtiger Akteur auf vielen Gebieten der Gesundheitswirtschaft. Auch bei Anwendung und Entwicklung von Telemedizin und AAL ist das Ruhrgebiet gut vertreten. Besonders aktiv ist das Ruhrgebiet bei der Suche nach innovativen Lösungen für die...

Die Gesundheitspolitik hat sich in den letzten zwanzig Jahren als ein wichtiger Bestandteil der wirtschaftspolitischen Debatte etabliert. Nichtsdestotrotz lässt sich der generelle Paradigmenwechsel der deutschen Sozialpolitik, der sich u.a. im Rückzug des Solidarprinzips in unserer...

We analyse the effect of a change in the remuneration system for physicians on the lengths of treatments of patients as measured by the number of doctor visits using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel over the period 1988- 2003. In particular, we analyse the introduction of a fixed budget...

In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this...

In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this...

This study identified differences in hospitalization rates for elderly African Americans and whites in Maryland for eight ambulatory care-sensitive conditions and estimated excess costs associated with these disparities. The study found that African Americans had significantly higher...

Context The healthy ageing assumptions may lead to substantial changes in paths of aggregate healthcare expenditures, notably catastrophic expenditures of people at the end of the life. But clear assessments of involved amounts are not available when we specifically consider ambulatory care (as...