The aim of this study was to explore the effectiveness of Beijing's DRG pilot reform in reducing expenditures, out-of-pocket payments, and potential behaviors to circumvent payment control, including readmissions, selection, and cost-shifting.
Although the most important laws and amendments were available in English, it is possible that our legal review omitted documents which describe payment control procedures and exist only in the Romanian language.
This encourages the employment of automated pre-payment controls and better post-payment decision support tools to enable subject matter expert analysis.
By controlling payment, they control [ration] the delivery of goods and services.
Once inside, they take over payment-control systems and siphon huge sums from the institutions.
Using logistic regression, we estimate the relationship between diabetes and the receipt of SSI payments controlling for age-group, sex, race/ethnicity, hypertension, and weight.
Health care reform was a down payment on controlling costs.
The startup now aims to scale additional merchandise on its digital network that coordinates pricing, payment, quality control and logistics across sellers and vendors.
Twiga Foods now aims to scale additional merchandise on its digital network that coordinates pricing, payment, quality control and logistics across sellers and vendors.
Independent of age and gender, stroke patients had significantly higher rates of mortality, health-related contacts, medication use and lower employment, lower income and higher social-transfer payments than controls.
