This volume provides step-by-step guidelines for developing appropriate and effective payment systems for health purchasers in low- and middle-income countries. It is dedicated to helping countries understand how to pay providers and how to design, build, and run new provider payment systems. It features chapters on three of the most popular provider payment systems: primary care per capita (capitation) payment, case- based hospital payment, and hospital global budgets. It also has primers on contracting and health management information system.