Financial Risk-Sharing in Updating the National List of Health Services in Israel: Stakeholders' Perceived Interests

Abstract

The successful implementation of risk-sharing schemes depends mainly on their perception as a win-win situation by all stakeholders. The perception exposed by our participants that risk-sharing can be a tool for improving the accuracy of early budget-impact estimates and the challenges pointed by them are relevant to other health care systems also and should be considered when implementing similar schemes.

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