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Buying efficiency: optimal hospital payment in the presence of double upcoding
BACKGROUND: With DRG payments, hospitals can game the system by ’upcoding’ true patient’s severity of illness. This paper takes into account that upcoding can be performed by the chief physician and hospital management, with the extent of the distortion depending on hospital’s internal decision-maki...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6935136/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31884524 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13561-019-0256-4 |