Healthcare payment

How healthcare payment is managed is one of key policies that countries have to drive healthcare system. Payment for healthcare is managed in various ways. The main categories of payment systems are salary, capitation, bundled payment, global budget and fee-for-service. Most countries have mixed systems of physician payment.[1][2]

  1. ^ OECD, Better Ways to Pay for Health Care (2016)
  2. ^ Gosden, Toby; Forland, Frode; Kristiansen, Ivar; Sutton, Matthew; Leese, Brenda; Giuffrida, Antonio; Sergison, Michelle; Pedersen, Lone (24 July 2000). "Capitation, salary, fee-for-service and mixed systems of payment: effects on the behaviour of primary care physicians". Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2011 (3): CD002215. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD002215. ISSN 1465-1858. PMC 9879313. PMID 10908531.