Transition to Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) Payments for Health: Lessons from Case Studies

The aim of this report is to help policy makers who are considering introducing, or are in the early stages of introducing, diagnosis-related group– (DRG-) based payments into their provider payment mix to understand how other countries (or systems) have made that transition

Publication Year:

2019

Publisher

The World Bank Group, Dec. 2019, doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-1521-8.

Author:

Bredenkamp, Caryn, et al., editors.
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A message from the partners of the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC)

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