Hospital Cooperation Fund

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The Hospital Cooperation Fund (KRAZAF) was a fund for financing hospitals in Austria from 1978 to 1996.

The KRAZAF was fed from sales tax and social security funds . The fund distributed funds to non-profit hospitals and in 1997 had approximately 47 billion schillings. In addition, he had a supra-regional planning and control function. In order to receive grants from KRAZAF, the hospitals had to meet defined criteria, such as carrying out cost accounting or performance statistics according to - ICD-9 .

With an agreement on the reform of the health system and the financing of hospitals, the KRAZAF was replaced at the beginning of 1997 by the structural fund at federal level and nine state funds. This enabled the goal of performance-oriented hospital financing , which had been set for many years , to be achieved.