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The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP, pronounced "H-Cup") is a family of healthcare databases and related software tools and products from the United States that is developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
HHN (Hospitals & Health Networks) Magazine. Archived from the original on 2011-07-11; Pham HH, Ginsburg PB, Lake TK, Maxfield MM (January 2010). "Episode-based payments: charting a course for health care payment reform" (PDF). Washington, DC: National Institute for Health Care Reform. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-08-19
Price bundling plays an increasingly important role in many industries (e.g. banking, insurance, software, automotive) and some companies even build their business strategies on bundling. In bundle pricing, companies sell a package or set of goods or services for a lower price than they would charge if the customer bought all of them separately.
[9] [10] [11] Government mandated critical care and government insurance programs like Medicare also impact the market pricing of U.S. health care. According to The New York Times in 2011, "the United States is far and away the world leader in medical spending, even though numerous studies have concluded that Americans do not get better care ...
According to Essentials of Managed Health Care, as of 2012 the chargemaster file typically included between 20,000 and 50,000 price definitions. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The Lewin Group analyzed utilization of the chargemaster and found that a low proportion of hospitals carried out regular reviews of their chargemaster implementation. [ 15 ]
Internal reference pricing may reduce expenditures in the short term by incentivizing people to use the reference drugs at the reference price, but the effect on drugs with a higher price than reference and on health is uncertain. [26] [29] Some countries, such as Denmark which has a long history of using ERP, switched to internal reference ...
Millions of Medicare enrollees are likely to see relief in 2025 when a $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug-spending goes into effect.
The subscription business model is a business model in which a customer must pay a recurring price at regular intervals for access to a product or service.The model was pioneered by publishers of books and periodicals in the 17th century, [1] and is now used by many businesses, websites [2] and even pharmaceutical companies in partnership with governments.