Medicare's central problem is that it institutionalizes the fee-for-service payment system, which rewards providers for the quantity of services provided, regardless of quality, outcome or cost.
Under such payment scheme the total revenue or income to the provider of care for insured patients is positively related to the quantity of care provided.
Our research indicates that with the additional capacity we would become one of the top four, in terms of quantity, providers.
Without such system-level perspectives, medical supply planning takes the form of an exercise in demography based on implicit assumptions: that population age structure determines the service needs of the population and that the age and sex of providers determine the quantity of care provided [ 4].
These methods influence the price of health care in a direct way, and may impact upon the quantity of care supplied by providers in an indirect way.
For each activity, the following details are required: a brief description of the activity, frequency of activity, target group (eg. whole of school or a particular class), the category of costs (personnel time, equipment, food and drink, other resources), quantity, provider of the resource (school, parents, external sponsor, grant etc), and the actual cost (if known).
The quality and quantity of clinical information in FGCS provider sites is poor, with erroneous information in some instances.
The fee-for-service payment system contributes to the problem, rewarding health care providers for the quantity of procedures they perform and paying for medical errors as well.
As such, future studies would aim at identifying the factors that determine the quantity of healthcare services consumed once the provider has been chosen.
As such, uture studies would aim at identifying the factors that determine the quantity of healthcare services consumed once the provider has been chosen.
Although important changes in service statistics were not apparent from this analysis (perhaps due to the small quantity of LNG IUS that was available), provider enthusiasm for the product was high.
