I DRG in Neuroradiologia

Abstract

Starting from January the first 1997 some crucial changes have happened in the Italian heath care system. A new reimbursement procedure was introduced for the public and private hospitals. This procedure coming from the American Diagnosis Related Groups system that was firstly assembled by the Insurance Companies as a method for evaluating the reimbursement according to the final diagnosis. This new reimbursement plan involves also neuroradiological procedures; an increasing solicitation of immediate reports can be easily predicted, even though each neuroradiological procedure will result as a cost for the solicitor.