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Capitation payments to competing Dutch sickness funds based on diagnostic information from prior hospitalizations
- Publication date
- 3 December 1997
- Publisher
- In many countries market-oriented health care reforms are high on the
political agenda. The purpose of these reforms is to make resource
allocation in health care more efficient, more innovative and more
responsive to the consumers' preferences. The Netherlands is no exception
in this respect. The Dutch health care reform shows close similarities with
the reforms in, for instance, Belgium (Kesenne, 1996), Germany (Graf von
der Schulenburg, 1994; Files and Murray, 1995), Switzerland (Beck and
Zweifel, 1996), Israel (Chinitz, 1994) and the U.S. (Newhouse, 1994). A
common element of these reforms is that the consumers may choose
among competing health insurers or health plans, which are largely
financed through premium-replacing capitation payments.