- Title
- Transitional funding: changing Ontario's global budgeting system.
- First Author
- Lave, Judith R
- Date of Pub
- 1992 Spring
- Pages
- 77-84
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 3
- Other Authors
- Jacobs, Philip; Markel, Frank
- Abstract
- In 1988, Ontario introduced transitional funding, a collaborative process between the Ministry of Health and the hospitals to modify Ontario's global budgeting system. The goals are to achieve greater equity; encourage hospital efficiency, and promote a shift from inpatient to outpatient services. To implement these goals, inpatient care is being measured in terms of case-mix groups, i.e., a classification system comparable to the diagnosis-related groups. However, since there is no patient level cost data, cost weights are being derived from patient-level data from New York State. Transitional funding draws attention to both positive and negative aspects of global budgeting.
- Abstract Continued
- N/A
- MeSH
- Budgets/organization & administration : Diagnosis-Related Groups/economics : Financial Management, Hospital/legislation & jurisprudence : Financing, Government/methods : Insurance, Hospitalization/economics : Interinstitutional Relations : Life Support Care/economics : National Health Programs/economics : Ontario : Organizational Innovation : Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
- NTIS Number
- PB2001-105738
