Productivity and effectiveness: an economist's viewpoint.
Movement of the health care sector toward a broader payment unit will make it easier to measure productivity change. It will also provide more appropriate incentives for productivity than when a narrower unit was used. Legal and regulatory constraints on productivity are being eliminated. Both trends will result in a redistribution of income among health professionals as well as increases in productivity.
D004526:Efficiency; D005161:Facility Regulation and Control / Q000639:trends; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D006295:Health Resources / Q000191:economics*; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States