Author: Tz. Petrova, J. Pavlova
Title: Prices and pricing in hospitals - 4, 2004, ¹ 2, 43-47.
Key Words (author's): Prices; Pricing factors; Public health; Hospitals.
Key Words (MEDLINE): Economics, hospital - statistics and numerical data; Costs and cost analysis ; Health services economics; Models, organizational.
Topic: Health Economics
Abstract
Authors make a survey of some theories of pricing and their application into the public health. They specify some specific characteristics in case of the evaluation of medical activities in hospitals. In order to develop positively the pricing in hospitals the specialists must work hardly on these lines:
- Creation of hospital information systems which have to provide the manager team with adequate information.
- Selection of a well-grounded training manager team.
- Good knowledge of the foreign experience and its application taking into consideration our conditions.
