Korea Journal of Hospital Management (한국병원경영학회지)
- Volume 19 Issue 2
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- Pages.1-11
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- 2014
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- 1226-6299(pISSN)
The Awareness on Medical Insurance on the Caregivers Cost for Hospital Administrative Personnel
병원행정직원의 간병비 급여화에 대한 인식
- Hwang, Byung-Deog (Department of HCM, Catholic University of Pusan) ;
- Choi, Ryoung (Department of Health Administration, Dongshin University)
- Received : 2014.03.11
- Accepted : 2014.06.22
- Published : 2014.06.30
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate awareness on medical insurance on the caregivers cost for hospital administrative staff and to provide the basic data for realization of legislation. The subjects were caregivers living in Busan, the survey was conducted from February 18 to March 9, 2013, 283 except for 17 copies of non-response and error response among a total of 300 questionnaires were analyzed. As a result, To improve the quality of care services, there were 51.8% of refresher training needs in refresher training items, 72.7% in favor of premiums increases in health insurance details, as for health insurance coverage subjects, patients' income were 32.0%, copayment for caregivers cost was 20.0%, which was 42.3%. Refresher training item, premiums increases, health insurance applied subjects, variables for copayment for care fee were related to medical insurance on the caregivers cost. On legislation on the medical insurance, systematic and standardized criteria should be provided to provide standardized curriculum for caregivers, to relieve patients and guardians of economic burden for caregivers cost and offer the stability of the cost.