Subject(s): Primary health care, Medical Economics -- Medical economics, Medical fees. -- Rate Setting and Review in methods. -- Provider payment system -- Primary health care per capita payment system : PHC, health policy context, methodology for developing a per capita PHC payment system, PHC package of services, calculating the base per capita rate, risk adjustment coefficients, enrollment database, provider's per capita budget, finance and management system, monitoring and quality assurance system, health system axes, experience from four central Asian republics -- Case-based hospital payment system : Case grouping criteria, cost- accounting analysis, case group weights, base rate, designing an information and billing system, refining case grouping, case studies from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyz republics -- Hospital global budgeting : Performance incentives, nonbudget funding, overview costing, managing the new global budget, annual adjustments -- Primer on contracting -- Health management information systems- linking purchasers and providers : Implementing appropriate provider system and purchaser system