Local adaptations or variants of diagnosis related groups (DRGs) have been adopted as the unit of payments to hospitals in many health systems.
Law firms are laying off lawyers as never before and questioning the industry's traditional unit of payment, the billable hour.
As a precursor to calculating the national tariff for HRG4 "currencies", where a "currency" is defined in the Department of Health's PbR Guidance for 2011-12 as "the unit of healthcare for which a payment is made", the Department collects annual cost data (Reference Costs) from every NHS provider of care.
Beer was thought to be so important in many bygone civilizations that the Code of Urukagina, often cited as the first legal code, even prescribed it as a central unit of payment and penance.
For commissioners, the incentive effects of financial payments and penalties upon providers depends on: 1. how resource-dependent the provider is upon the commissioner 2. how much discretion the commissioner has to decide what services to finance, what unit of payment (per case, per diem etc).
We used the county as the unit of geography rather than the Medicare payment area in order to capture variations in expected payment associated with variations in local treatment patterns.
Thus, the vendor has to control the time/the data sent and requires a payment once the unit of consumption (seconds or bytes) defined is spent.
In particular, consumers justified decision to join or not to join the insurance scheme in relation to their preference for the unit of enrolment, the premium level and the payment modalities, the benefit package, the health service provider network and the CBI managerial structure.
In any value-based payment model, facility or provider payments are tied to performance on outcomes, and the unit of analysis is the provider (e.g., acute care hospital, individual occupational therapy practitioner).
The units of analysis for these tests were mentions of reported payment sources.
