Studies from World Bank Provide New Data on Healthcare Economics (Getting Incentives Right? The Impact Of Hospital Capitation Payment In Vietnam)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- A new study on Health and Medicine - Healthcare Economics is now available. According to news reporting from Washington, District of Columbia, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, "This paper evaluates the impact on cost and utilization of a shift from fee-for-service to capitation payment of district hospitals by Vietnam's social health insurance agency."

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from World Bank, "Hospital fixed effects analysis suggests that capitation leads to reduced costs. Hospitals also increased service provision to the uninsured who continue to pay out-of-pocket on a fee-for-service basis."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "The study points to the need to anticipate unintended effects of payment reforms, especially in the context of a multiple purchaser system."

For more information on this research see: Getting Incentives Right? The Impact Of Hospital Capitation Payment In Vietnam. Health Economics, 2017;26(2):263-272. Health Economics can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - www.wiley.com/; Health Economics - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1050)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting H.T.H. Nguyen, World Bank, Hlth Nutr & Populat Global Practice, Washington, DC 20433, United States. Additional authors for this research include S. Bales, A. Wagstaff and H. Dao (see also Health and Medicine - Healthcare Economics).

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