Case-Based Hospital Payment Systems: Summary of Key Aspects of Design and Implementation

This is a summary of Chapter 2: Case-Based Hospital Payment Systems in the book – Designing and Implementing Health Care Provider Payment Systems: How-to Manuals.  Provider payment systems can be powerful tools to promote the development of health systems and achieve health policy objectives. Because the hospital inpatient sector almost always consumes the greatest share of health care resources, the way hospitals are paid can have a particularly strong influence on the performance of the health care system as a whole. Countries throughout the world are taking new approaches to paying hospitals in an effort to improve hospital performance and meet broader health system objectives.