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An essential element of making integrated care successful is an appropriate reimbursement instrument, such as bundled payments. They may differ in the scope of bundling (target population, time, sectors), as well as in how the price is set (negotiation, fixed). Yet, they always go along with a specific mind set of taking responsibility for the delivered health care and transparency on the own performance
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Ex, P. (2021). Reimbursing Integrated Care Through Bundled Payments. In: Amelung, V., Stein, V., Suter, E., Goodwin, N., Nolte, E., Balicer, R. (eds) Handbook Integrated Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69262-9_22
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