Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
- Volume 4 Issue 2
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- Pages.218-227
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- 2005
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- 1598-7248(pISSN)
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- 2234-6473(eISSN)
On Establishing a New Fee Schedule for General Surgical Procedure Using Fuzzy MCDM
- Hung, Chih-Young (Institute of Management of Technology, National Chiao Tung University) ;
- Huang, Yuan-Huei (Institute of Management of Technology, National Chiao Tung University) ;
- Chang, Pei-Yeh (Department of Pediatric Surgery Chang Gung Children's Hospital) ;
- Wang, Kuei-Ing (Institute of Management of Technology Nationl Chiao Tung University) ;
- Chang, King-Jen (Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital) ;
- Liu, Yi-Hsin (Department of Marketing and Distribution Management Hsuan Chuang University)
- Published : 2005.12.31
Abstract
In this research a model for establishing a new, rational fee schedule for general surgical procedures in a national health insurance program is developed. A fuzzy multiple criteria decision-making (FMCDM) model is proposed. The relative values of eleven surgical procedures were obtained through an empirical study based on the FMCDM model. Consequently, a new fee schedule obtained from the FMCDM model. This new fee schedule is more convincing than previous schedule and more persuasive to the references for the policy setting.