Economic incentives and diagnostic coding in a public health care system
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Keywords
Case-mix; DRG; DRG creep; Funding; Hospitals; Financing;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- G38 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Government Policy and Regulation
- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
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