New Approach of Financing Health Services in Turkey: Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG)

Health services offered by public and private sector in turkey are largely funded by public sources and health care institutes get reimbursed by the social security administration for health care services they provide. however, staff, equipment, clinical and costtablesof the patient sadmitted to different levels of health care institutions seems to be different. at this point, most preferred refund method of diagnosis related groups (drg) system, depends on classifying the patients according to similar clinical and cost data and paying back for patient groups according to principle ofusing similar sources for the similar diagnosis of patients and allocatesre sources on the basis of hospital activity or classification level. the aim of this study is to make an over all predictive assessment on system efficiency of diagnosis-related groups (drg) which is used widely in the world as a back payment method for health care services, transition process continuing in turkey, and to contribute to the determination of reimbursement system of turkey’s health care policies.