Designing and implementing health care provider payment systems :

Designing and implementing health care provider payment systems : how-to manuals / edited by John C. Langenbrunner, Cheryl Cashin, and Sheila O'Dougherty. - Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2009. - xxii, 321 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview : what, how, and who : an introduction to provider payment systems -- Primary health care per capita payment systems -- Case-based hospital payment systems -- Hospital global budgeting -- A primer on contracting -- Health management information systems : linking purchasers and providers.

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