[Hospital financing and information on hospital clients]

The health care system can be characterized, among other facts, by the multiplicity of involved actors (institutions and individuals) acting for final goals in competition, or even in opposition. The principal goal of the economic organization of the health care system consists in applying a regulation to grant the coordination of the great number of decisions taken by decentralized actors in order to introduce them in economic way into a common final goal. The market forces appear unable to realize the necessary regulation in the health care system and centralized planning can lead to lack of effectiveness. For this reason, it's necessary to make use of a decentralized economic regulation; in this view health care financing systems are essential and could positively influence the behaviour of the actors as well as the costs. Information on hospital Casemix represents an important contribution to better transparency of the working of the health care system and to facilitate competition.