Background: Implementing the diagnosis-related groups (DRG) payment policy in 2021 marked a significant step in increasing the capacity and efficiency of public hospital services in Chongqing, China.

Background. Much work has been done to evaluate the outcome of integrative inpatient treatment but scarcely the costs. This paper evaluates the costs for inpatient treatment in three anthroposophic ...

Medicare determines how much it will pay for treatment by calculating costs based on specific diagnoses. The process uses predetermined classifications known as Diagnostic-Related Groups (DRGs). DRGs ...

In hospitals, the radiological services provided to non-privately insured in-house patients are mostly distributed to requesting disciplines through internal cost allocation (ICA). In many ...