How much should be paid for Prescribed Specialised Services?

TY - UNPB

T1 - How much should be paid for Prescribed Specialised Services?

AU - Bojke, Chris

AU - Grasic, Katja

AU - Street, Andrew David

PY - 2015/10

Y1 - 2015/10

N2 - Overview: Current policy in the English National Health Service (NHS) promotes concentration of the specialised treatment of relatively rare and complex conditions into a limited number of specialist centres. However if a more complex patient case-mix leads to specialised treatments being systematically more costly than non-specialised treatment, then the national tariff payment system based on Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs) may punitively penalise centres that perform this activity

AB - Overview: Current policy in the English National Health Service (NHS) promotes concentration of the specialised treatment of relatively rare and complex conditions into a limited number of specialist centres. However if a more complex patient case-mix leads to specialised treatments being systematically more costly than non-specialised treatment, then the national tariff payment system based on Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs) may punitively penalise centres that perform this activity

M3 - Discussion paper

T3 - CHE Research Paper

SP - 1

EP - 56

BT - How much should be paid for Prescribed Specialised Services?

PB - Centre for Health Economics, University of York

CY - York, UK

ER -