What to read after Paying the Hospital?

Paying the hospital analyzes in depth and compares the methods of paying hospitals across the principal developed countries - France, Germany, England, Holland, Switzerland, Canada, and the United States. It goes on to analyze the comparative effects of different payment methods - either within individual countries or across many countries - on administration, cost cointainment, and clinical performance. The volume is organized by topic, not country-by-country description, and offers information in the following sequence: methods of cost accounting, how budgets are screened and how rates are described, units of payment, how capital is distributed for buildings and equipment, deciding wages of hopital doctors, the organization of medical staffs, the work of financial managers, effects of different methods on levels of costs, volume, types of services, quality of care, and so on.