New Financing Modalities for Critical Care
Payment mechanisms in the French health care system have long been based on FFS for health professionals working on a private basis and on prospective budgeting methods for health services. However, since the mid-2000s there has been a move towards the implementation of activity-based payment methods for health services, starting with the implementation of DRG tariffs in hospitals and the introduction of P4P for doctors, without impairing the FFS principle.
