1.A study on the Share of Cost of Laboratory Tests in Total Medical Care Expenditure.
Journal of the Korean Medical Association 1997;40(12):1648-1653
No abstract available.
Health Expenditures*
2.Effectiveness of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation case rate system for thyroidectomy in a tertiary government hospital
Josephine Ann P. Ramos ; Frederick Mars B. Untalan
Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery 2020;35(1):51-55
Objective:
To determine the effectiveness of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) case rate system in reducing out-of-pocket expenses among non-no balance billing (NBB) patients undergoing thyroidectomy under the Department of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery of the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center from February to September 2018.
Methods:
Design: Prospective Cross- Sectional.
Setting: Tertiary Government Hospital.
Participants: Sixty-four (64) randomly selected patients with PhilHealth who underwent thyroidectomy who agreed to participate and reveal their statements of accounts.
Results:
Among the study population, 20% belonged to the no balance billing (NBB) category, with zero out-of-pocket expenses during their confinement. Eighty percent (80%) belonged to the non-NBB category and also incurred zero hospital charges. In addition, there was no significant difference in the individual categories of the hospital expenses between the two groups except for the surgical procedures (p= .018, 95% CI). The accumulated total expenses also did not significantly differ between the two groups (p= .063, 95% CI). The minimum amount billed was PhP 1,984.95, while the maximum amount charged was PhP 38,898.65, with a median of PhP 18,703.28 and interquartile range of PhP 4,251.78 (XU: PhP 20,848.74, XL : PhP 16,596.96). There were no reported out-of-pocket expenses from non-NBB patients. The actual cost of thyroidectomy did not differ significantly from the case rate provided by PhilHealth among all the RVS categories.
Conclusion
The PhilHealth case rate system is effective in reducing out-of-pocket expenses among non-NBB patients who underwent thyroidectomy in our institution during the study period.
Health Expenditures
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Thyroidectomy
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3.Affordable for health expenditure of people in Ba Vi district Ha Tay province (2002)
Journal of Medical Research 2005;39(6):102-106
Results from some studies in rural area of Vietnam have shown that poor people are likely tend to sell assets while non poor people are able to pay for health care services. This makes poor people fall into poverty trap. Objectives: To identify the average household health expenditure during a year and sources of borrowing money and average amount of borrowing as well for health care services. Methods: 621 households were selected randomly from the Filabavi, Bavi District, Ha Tay Province. A longitudinal descriptive study was conducted for one year from July 2001 to June 2002. All selected households were interviewed one time per month. Results and conslusion: average payment household for health care services for one year was VND 519.000 (6.4% of total annual household income). Annual household income of poor group was VND 6,576,000, among this 8.4% was paid for health care services. There was 16.9% household had to borrow money for health care services average1y, while 23.1% of poor household had to borrow money for health care services. Borrowing sources included relatives (85%), neighbours (50%), Bank (26%), friends (15%), community organizations (9%) and private organizations with some interest (18%).
Health Expenditures, Rural Health
4.An analysis on the insurance expenditure at the commune and district level
Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Information 2003;0(11):22-27
The expenditure structure and the sharing of the cost from in patients and out patient betweem subject with and without insurance subscriptive subject at commune and district level were analysed. Health Insurance service had supported importantly the subject at basic level especially the poors and the pensioneers who received 100% of allowance to access to the health care. Other expenditures, included also the gifts, from the insurance subscribers were higher consisderably than the subjects without insurance. For old person and pensioneers who hospitalized, these other expenditures account for high rate (60,91% at commune level and 60,32% at district level)
Health Expenditures
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Insurance
6.A quentitative model for the projection of health expenditure.
Han Joong KIM ; Young Doo LEE ; Chung Mo NAM
Korean Journal of Preventive Medicine 1991;24(1):29-36
A multiple regression analysis using ordinary least square (OLS) is frequently used for the projection of healt expenditure as well as for the identification of factors affecting health care costs. Data for the analysis often have mixed characteristics of time series and cross section. Parameters as a result of OLS estimation, in this case, are no longer the best linear unbiased estimators (BLUE) because the data do not satisfy basic assumptions of regression analysis. The study theoretically examined statistical problems induced when OLS estimation was applied with the time series cross section data. Then both the OLS regression and time series cross section regression (TSCS regression) were applied to the same empirical data. Finally, the difference in parameters between the two estimations were explained through residual analysis.
Health Care Costs
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Health Expenditures*
7.Proposal of Program for Easier Access of Family Medicine Information through PC Communication.
Journal of the Korean Academy of Family Medicine 1997;18(9):943-952
BACKGROUND: It is expected that the demand for the information about the primary medical service in the forthcoming supersede age of communication will be on the increase. For that reason, family doctors who are in charge of the primary medical service have to play an important part in constructing a data-base for furnishing the medical information. This article presents a model which includes the roles of family doctors, constructing medical-related information site of family medicine in the communications net with PC to gat,her fundamental data in operating the system of medical information and elucidating the formation of medical-related information site and the effect of operating that system. METHODS: Since Aug. 20 in 1996, the site of family medicine, the program of medical information, has been set up in Unitel. The medical information of the site of family medicine is to be classified into two parts : for doctors and for the public. The former is composed of medicine documents, several kinds of medical data, a linkage with medicine site in Internet, movements of an academic society and information exchanges for friendship. The latter is mainly made up of some practical medical sense and medical counsel. RESULTS: From the opening the medical information site to Jul. 30 in 1997, 250 persons a day have connected with medical information site and this fact implied 15 hours connection a day in terms of the daily mean. The cases of health counsel averaged 6 cases connection a day and the annual statistics of those cases were about, 1980 cases. The major content of health counsel was related to common symptoms that could be settled in primary medical problem. According to the survey for connectors, most of connectors answered that the medical information through communications net was much more effective t.han that from other media in the educational aspects and very helpful in the prevention of diseases and in the medical expenditure. Above all, the medical information through communications net was very effective in correcting the mistaken practical medical sense. CONCLUSIONS: It is necessary for family doctors to give thought to the connection of both information communication and medicine and to have correct understanding of medical domain in the cyberspace. On the foundation of these necessities, all the family doctors have to make the best of their way to construct a database with rnedical data and to transfer these data into the computer sites.
Friends
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Health Expenditures
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Humans
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Internet
9.A study on the medical care expenditure of the uterine cervix carcinoma by clinical stage and treatment modality.
Hyo Ki MIN ; Doo Chae JUNG ; Soo Yong CHOI ; Je Ho LEE ; Jae Kyu LIM
Korean Journal of Epidemiology 1992;14(2):160-174
No abstract available.
Cervix Uteri*
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Female
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Health Expenditures*
10.What are the direct medical costs of managing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Malaysia?
Feisul Idzwan Mustapha ; Soraya Azmi ; Mohd Rizal Abdul Manaf ; Zanariah Hussein ; Nik Jasmin Nik Mahir ; Fatanah Ismail ; Azimatun Noor Aizuddin ; Adrian Goh
The Medical Journal of Malaysia 2017;72(5):271-277
Introduction: An economic analysis was performed to
estimate the annual cost of diabetes mellitus to Malaysia.
Methods: We combined published data and clinical
pathways to estimate cost of follow-up and complications,
then calculated the overall national cost. Costs consisted of
diabetes follow-up and complications costs.
Results: Patient follow-up was estimated at RM459 per year.
Complications cost were RM42,362 per patient per year for
nephropathy, RM4,817 for myocardial infarction, RM5,345 for
stroke, RM3,880 for heart failure, RM5,519 for foot
amputation, RM479 for retinopathy and RM4,812 for cataract
extraction.
Conclusion: Overall, we estimated the total cost of diabetes
as RM2.04 billion per year for year 2011 (both public and
private sector). Of this, RM1.40 billion per year was incurred
by the government. Despite some limitations, we believe our
study provides insight to the actual cost of diabetes to the
country. The high cost to the nation highlights the
importance of primary and secondary prevention.
Diabetes Mellitus
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Health Care Costs
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Health Expenditures