DRGs and the Professional Independence of Physicians
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Handbook of Research on Information Technology Management and Clinical Data Administration in Healthcare. ed. / Ashish N. Dwivedi . Vol. 1 Hershey, PA: Medical Information Science Reference, 2009. p. 173-191.
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T1 - DRGs and the Professional Independence of Physicians
AU - Frisina, Lorraine
AU - Cacace, Mirella
N1 - Chapter XII
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This chapter examines the effects of diagnosis related groups (DRGs) on the professional independence of physicians in three distinct types of healthcare systems: the U.S. private insurance system, where DRGs were first developed and subsequently implemented in the public Medicare program in 1983; the British National Health Service (NHS), which adopted an analogous version of DRGs referred to as Health Resource Groups (HRGs) in 1992; and the German social insurance system, which adopted its own DRG version (G-DRGs) based on a refined version of the Australian model that is to be fully phased into the hospital system by 2009. By examining these three cases, the present contribution asks (a) whether it is possible to identify any effects of DRGs on the professional independence of physicians; and (b) whether these effects are specific to the respective healthcare system and/or DRG version at hand.
AB - This chapter examines the effects of diagnosis related groups (DRGs) on the professional independence of physicians in three distinct types of healthcare systems: the U.S. private insurance system, where DRGs were first developed and subsequently implemented in the public Medicare program in 1983; the British National Health Service (NHS), which adopted an analogous version of DRGs referred to as Health Resource Groups (HRGs) in 1992; and the German social insurance system, which adopted its own DRG version (G-DRGs) based on a refined version of the Australian model that is to be fully phased into the hospital system by 2009. By examining these three cases, the present contribution asks (a) whether it is possible to identify any effects of DRGs on the professional independence of physicians; and (b) whether these effects are specific to the respective healthcare system and/or DRG version at hand.
KW - Health sciences
U2 - 10.4018/978-1-60566-356-2.ch012
DO - 10.4018/978-1-60566-356-2.ch012
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 9781605663562
VL - 1
SP - 173
EP - 191
BT - Handbook of Research on Information Technology Management and Clinical Data Administration in Healthcare
A2 - Dwivedi , Ashish N.
PB - Medical Information Science Reference
CY - Hershey, PA
ER -