The definition of prices for inpatient care in Poland in the absence of cost data |
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Authors: | Adam Kozierkiewicz Maciej Stamirski Waldemar Stylo Wojciech Trąbka |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Public Health, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Grzegorzecka 20 str., 31-530 Krakow, Poland |
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Abstract: | The health reform of 1999 in Poland introduced market-like relations in the health care sector. The oligopsonic and the current
monopsomic position of the payer makes prices for health care products purchased in this quasi-market low and does not usually take into account the costs of production. Despite a long history
of cost calculation in the system, a systematic and reliable assessment of costs is still lacking which would help in setting
up fair financing. At the same time providers complain about the dictatorship of the National Health Fund (NHF) yet they rarely
resign from contracts with the NHF when they have the chance to conclude one. |
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Keywords: | Universal health insurance Health services Inpatient care Hospital financing Costing health services Pricing health care services Hospital payment methods |
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