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HEALTH ECONOMICS POLICY AND LAW
Volume 2, Issue 4, Pages 419-427Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S174413310700429X
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The English National Health Service is introducing activity based tariff systems or Payment by Results (PbR) as the basis for hospital funding. The funding arrangements provide incentives for increasing activity, particularly day surgery, and, uniquely, are based on costing data from all hospitals. But prices should not be based on average costs and the potential of PbR to improve the quality of care is yet to be exploited. Without refinement, PbR threatens to undermine expenditure control, to divert resources away from primary care, and to distort needs based funding.
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