What is it about?
The HRG tariff used in the English NHS to pay providers for activity contains assumptions regarding the behavior of costs. Data from Canada is used to show the length of stay (as a proxy for costs) behaves in different ways over time depending on age
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Why is it important?
Hidden assumptions in any tariff will lead to financial imbalance
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Part of a longer series investigating the behavior of health care costs and how the HRG tariff contains flaws which accentuate financial risk and imbalance, see http://www.hcaf.biz/2010/Publications_Full.pdf
Dr Rodney P Jones
Healthcare Analysis & Forecasting
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This page is a summary of: Health care costs and the HRG tariff, British Journal of Healthcare Management, September 2010, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjhc.2010.16.9.78373.
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