Journal article
Hospital performance and payment: impact of integrating pay-for-performance on healthcare effectiveness in Lebanon
Abstract
Background: In 2014 the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health integrated pay-for-performance into setting hospital reimbursement tiers, to provide hospitalization service coverage for the majority of the Lebanese population. This policy was intended to improve effectiveness by decreasing unnecessary hospitalizations, and improve fairness by including risk-adjustment in setting hospital performance scores. Methods: We applied a systematic approach …
Authors
Khalife J; Ammar W; Emmelin M; El-Jardali F; Ekman B
Journal
Wellcome Open Research, Vol. 5, ,
Publisher
F1000Research
DOI
10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15810.2
ISSN
2398-502X