Drawing on the International Experience in Setting up a System for Funding Medical Centers
The article reviews the historical experience in implementing systems for funding hospitals through a so-called global budget. Some successful and unsuccessful attempts to introduce the global budget in hospitals are considered in the light of using this funding method in Russia in 2012. We describe the methods of hospital funding based on the actual amount of activity and present classifications of patients into groups that are homogeneous in relation to the level of treatment expenses.