Sentence examples for single reimbursement from inspiring English sources

Those attending the conference, including representatives of several major health insurers, agreed that it was important to establish a single reimbursement rate for paired exchanges.

These measures should achieve the goal of a single reimbursement system that takes into account the diagnosis (using a proper ICU coding), patient severity (using severity scales and patient classification categories), specific ICU procedures (using scales of therapeutic interventions), and complications during hospital evolution[43].

14 If the patient or patient's physician chooses a more expensive medication, he/she must pay the difference or apply for a single reimbursement.

14 Single reimbursement applies to cases in which an individual may receive reimbursement for one particular drug that he/she requires treatment with and that is not covered under the general reimbursement.

14 There are four types of individual reimbursement schemes: (1) single reimbursement, (2) increased reimbursement, (3) reimbursement for the chronically ill patient, and (4) reimbursement for the terminally ill patient.

Also, health technology assessment is more flexible, since it allows the consideration of cost-effectiveness by indication (for example, first line or second line), or patient sub-group, whereas reference pricing sets a single reimbursement level for the drug in all its licensed indications.

Inadequate trim point calculation opens up the discussion of a greater DRG differentiation, implying unintended single case reimbursement and less practicability in the grade of differentiation [13].

Because of limited data availability, and to mimic as closely as possible the intention-to-treat analyses in the trials, we used a single prescription reimbursement claim as the treatment measure.

Direct medical costs were calculated from a health care system's perspective approximated by the actual hospital cost, market prices of drugs and medical devices and average single item reimbursement rates for a weighted mix of members of private and statutory sickness funds[ 15].

"Max Patient Advocacy Work," it said, would be directed at "payers," "physicians," "patients," "media," "legal pressure" and "community involvement," all with a single aim: "OK Reimbursement".

Under reference pricing, drugs that are judged to be similar are 'clustered' and a single level of reimbursement (i.e. the reference price) set for the cluster, usually based on the price of the cheapest drug in the group or on some average of existing prices [ 14].