Cost containment

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Cost containment is an aspect of budget management that emphasisis the contol of expenditure. In Health economics and managed care environments it is an important tool in ensuring value for money and managing health care costs.

Where fees for service and professional fees are payable to individual practitioners it is an important aspect of managing a practice to ensure the money is there to make it it economically viable.

See also

• Case management
• Cost-minimization analysis
• Cost-benefit analysis,
• Cost-effectiveness analysis
• Cost-utility analysis
• Costs and cost analysis
• Diagnostic related groups
• Health care services
• Health maintenance organizations
• Resource allocation
• Sunk costs
• Treatment