Canadian Doctors for Medicare-Position on Activity-based funding in Canadian Hospitals and other Surgical Facilities (references intl sources)

ABF-final-9.8.8.pdf (application/pdf Object)

What is activity-based funding?

Widespread confusion exists around the jargon used to describe different ways of funding
hospitals.

Activity-based funding (ABF) is also known in the UK as payment-by-results
(PbR), as patient-focused funding (PFF) by the Canadian Medical Association, as servicebased
funding or case-mix funding by the Kirby Commission, as prospective payment
system (PPS) in the US, and elsewhere as payment-for-volume, or volume-based funding.

We use the relatively neutral term of activity-based funding, because the focus is not
necessarily on the patient, but rather on the type and volume of service delivered.