How much should be paid for Prescribed Specialised Services?

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Overview: Current policy in the English National Health Service (NHS) promotes concentration of the specialised treatment of relatively rare and complex conditions into a limited number of specialist centres. However if a more complex patient case-mix leads to specialised treatments being systematically more costly than non-specialised treatment, then the national tariff payment system based on Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs) may punitively penalise centres that perform this activity

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Authors/Creators:	Bojke, Chris https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2601-0314 Grasic, Katja (kg716@york.ac.uk) Street, Andrew David https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2540-0364
Dates:	Published: October 2015
Institution:	The University of York
Academic Units:	The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Centre for Health Economics (York) The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Centre for Health Economics (York) > CHE Research Papers (York)
Depositing User:	Pure (York)
Date Deposited:	19 Sep 2018 09:40
Last Modified:	04 Feb 2024 01:26
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Series Name:	CHE Research Paper
Refereed:	No
Related URLs:	http://www.york.ac.uk/media/che/document...

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