In: Economics
9.Which statement is FALSE about changing the unit of payment?
More aggregate units of payment tend to shift financial risk to providers of care. |
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The more aggregated the unit of payment, the less predictable the quantity tends to be. |
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In Germany was introduced global budgeting, called expenditure caps, for physician payment. |
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It’s difficult to isolate the specific effects of changing the unit of payment. |
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In the United States, the Medicare program adopted a less- stringent version of an expenditure cap for physician fees, known as the “sustainable growth rate”. |
FALSE statement is
In Germany was introduced global budgeting, called expenditure caps, for physician payment.
Reason:
In 1970, global budgeting was introduced in Canada. It use global budgets or expenditure caps to constrain the growth in hospital and/or physician expenditures.
The basis of that introduction was taking the 1969 budget and capping it for every institutional care provider in the country, with some increase for inflation in 1970.