Theme | Sub-themes | Measures | Countries |
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Reducing Hospitals Funds | Reducing hospital budget and government spending | Budget reduction | Czech Republic [10], Slovenia [10], Austria [10], United States [77], Greece [39], Finland [34] |
Change in the way of budget allocation | Establishing a Unified Yearly Global Budget for all hospitals | Greece [45] | |
Upper limits for budgets allocation | China [26] | ||
Decreasing payment rates of payment systems | Reducing DRG prices | France [10] | |
Upper limits for insurance reimbursements | China [26] | ||
Lowered tariffs paid to providers | Estonia [10], Ireland [10], Romania [10], Slovenia [10], England [31] | ||
Direct reduction in growth rate of payment | |||
Saving Hospital Funds | Controlling expenditures | Controlling main costs groups in hospitals | |
Controlling hospitals investments | Reduction and cancelation of hospital investments/ constructions | United States [79, 85, 93], Romania [10], Spain [10], UK [10], | |
Value based purchasing | United States [85] | ||
Joint purchasing | Greece [45] |