Funding health services is determining how the distribution between different actors and different services should be. Sintef has had a central role in this field for a long time, from the development of DRGs in Norway, to more recent redistribution models for the specialist health service. Sintef's work has been both the analysis and implementation of models for use at various levels in the service, from individual municipalities, hospital trusts, regional health authorities and to national models.
Some selected projects
- When the districts pay. An evaluation of the payment scheme for patients ready for discharge in somatic and geriatric psychiatric hospital wards in Oslo municipality (1998)
- ISF reimbursement vs block grant funding 1997-1999 (2001)
- Development in unit price and unit cost 1995-1999 (2001)
- ISF reimbursement vs block grant funding 1999-2000 (2001)
- Proposal for a cost allocation rates for mental health care (2002)
- Activity-based outpatient clinic rates in mental health care - between vision and reality (2003)
- Money follows the user. Note to Bærum municipality (2004)
- Revenue model Helse Øst. Note to Helse Øst RHF (2006)
- Revenue model Helse Nord. Note to Helse Nord RHF (2006)
- Examination of the use of earmarked funds for mental health work in the municipalities (2006)
- Evaluation of the municipalities' implementation of the escalation plan for mental health. Analysis of the use of earmarked funds for mental health work in the municipalities (2001–2009)
- NOU 2008:2 Distribution of income between regional health authorities. Head of the committee secretariat (2007) ("Magnussen 1" Committee)
- Development in paired DRGs (2008-2011)
- The financing of the specialist health service in various countries (2009-2010)
- Financing model for the specialist health service in Western Norway RHA (2009)
- Financing model for Central-Norway RHA (2010)
- Revision of the income distribution model in Western Norway RHA (2012)
- Financing model for distribution of the framework for pre-hospital services in Western Norway RHA (2013)
- Assessment of models for municipal co-financing of mental health care and interdisciplinary specialized drug treatment (2013)
- Financing of the ambulance service in Central Norway RHA (2015-2016)
- DRG and productivity (2012-2017)
- Financial Models for Care Integration (2015)
- Criteria model Oslo municipality (2014-2015)
- NOU 2019:24 Distribution of income between regional health undertakings. Committee participation and secretariat (2018-2019) (the "Magnussen 2" committee)
- National funding of municipal health- and care services (2019-2022)
- Risk adjustment in financing models for team-based GP scheme (2020)
- NOU 2019:24 Distribution of income between regional health undertakings. Updates and implementation for the Ministry of Health and Care (2020)
- Revision of the revenue model in Central Norway RHA (2020-2021)
- Resource distribution between hospital areas in Nord-Trøndelag Hospital Trust (2020)
- Revision of the revenue model in Western Norway RHA (2020-2021)
- Calculations of criteria weights, needs analysis and implementation of a funding model in South-Eastern Norway RHA (2020-2023)
- Analysis of Oslo municipality's income distribution system: Social services and benefits (2022-2023)