• 보건행정학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.228-241
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• 2014

Background: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of health insurance coverage expansion for cancer patients on equity in health care utilization and catastrophic expenditure. Methods: To analyze the causal relationship between the policy to expand benefit coverage and the change in health care utilization and out-of-pocket payments of cancer patients, this study employed a difference-in-differences (DID) method. In the DID model, the change in health care utilization, such as health care expenditure, visit days and length of stay, of cancer patients was compared with that of liver disease patients, using Korea Health Panel Data in 2009 and 2010. Results: The policy of reducing cost sharing from 10% to 5% for cancer patients did not have significant effects on equity in health care utilization. The results of this study were different from those of the previous study that showed that the reduction of cost sharing from 20% to 10% significantly improved the equity in health care utilization of cancer patients. In addition, the result of catastrophic expenditures analysis showed the policy did not change the probability of catastrophic expenditures. Conclusion: The results of this study imply that payment for non-covered services account for high out-of-pocket payments, and the reduction in cost sharing for covered services alone may have a limited effect on total financial burden on patients.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.3-12
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• 1981

To identify the changes in professional care patterns after the introduction of medical insurance in Korea, professional care in hospitals and clinics of two succeeding years were compared. The hospitals and clinics selected for this study were those which located in Seoul city. Hospitals were classified into 3 categories: university hospital, general hospital and hospital. The diseases selected for this study were acute appendicitis and normal delivery. They were selected because their disease courses are considered to be fairly stable. The variables used for this study were length of stay, total hospital costs, costs of each components of cares. The information used for this study was obtained from the official forms requested by the medical facilities to the Korea Medical Insurance Corporation. The two periods studied were 3 months of each year from March 1st to May 31st in 1979 and 1980, The total number of normal delivery studied was 289 in 1979, 301 in 1980 respectively and the acute appendicitis was 92 and 111 respectively. In order to compare the quantity of medical care between 2 study periods the insurance price scores of 1979 were converted to prices of 1980. For statistical test of difference between 2 periods T-test and Welch's test were used. The result of the study were briefly summarized in below. 1. No significant difference was observed in the average length of stay of both disease between two study periods in all types of hospitals. 2. No significant difference was observed in the average total hospital costs of both diseases in all types of hospital, but in the private clinic the average clinic costs was rather decreased significantly in 1980. 3. More cost decrease were seen than cost increase in 1980 in all types of facilities, More cost changes by items were seen in acute appendicitis than in normal delivery between two study periods. The total hospital costs can be devided into 2 portions: charges for drug and material and for physician. In normal delivery, costs for physician's charges was significantly decreased in almost all the hospitals and costs for drug and material were not changed significantly in all the hospitals in 1980. In the university hospitals, however, the costs for drug and material were increased significantly in 1980. The cost decrease for physician's charge were mainly due to the decrease in the costs of laboratory test, treatment and physical therapy. The increase in the costs for the drug and material in the university hospitals was mainly due to the increase in the cost for drugs for oral administration and injection. 4. The proportion of components of medical care in the hospital has not been changed significantly, however, the cost for injection in normal delivery was characteristically increased in 1980 in all hospitals studied. In general the proportion of the costs for drug and material was tended to increase and the costs for physician was tended to decrease in 1980. The increase in the costs for drug and material were considered to be due to increase in the cost for drugs for oral administration and injection. The decrease in the costs for physician were due to decrease in the costs of laboratory test, treatment and physical therapy. Above mentioned changes in hospital and clinic care patterns are considered to be mostly influenced by the review criteria set by the K.I.C. for the assessment of the fee request made by clinics and hospitals.

• 디지털정책학회지
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• 1권1호
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• pp.21-26
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• 2022

본 연구에서는 요양병원이 입원비 지출 발생에 기여도가 큰점을 주목하여, 요양병원의 입원정책을 살펴보고, 불필요한 입원비발생을 유발한 점이 있다면, 해외사례를 참조하여 개선방안을 제안하고자 한다. 본 연구는 건강보험공단과 건강보험심사평가원에서 발행한 건강보험통계연보, 건강보험 주요통계를 주로 활용하여 연구를 진행하였다. 이를 바탕으로 요양병원이 입원비 발생에 가장 큰 기여를 한다는 것을 추론하였다. 본 연구 결과 요양병원의 입원규정이 명문화 되지 않았다는 문제점을 발견하였고, 명문화 되지않은 입원 기준이 불필요한 입원비 발생해 기여 할수 있다는 점을 발견하였고, 이를 극복하기 위한 개선방안을 우리보다 먼저 고령화를 경험한 미국의 사례에서 제안해보았다. 본연구를 시작으로 요양병원에서의 불필요한 입원비 지출을 줄인 보다 많은 외국의 사례들을 찾아야 할 것이다.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.28-38
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 우리나라 보건소 방문건강관리사업과 노인장기요양보험의 방문간호, 의료기관의 가정간호사업 등 가정방문간호사업 현황을 살펴보고, 향후 발전과정을 모색하고자 수행되었다. 본 연구를 위하여 각 가정방문간호사업의 관련 법령, 통계자료, 지침과 안내서, 연구논문과 학술대회 자료집 등을 검색하여 관련 문헌을 고찰하였다. 연구결과 보건소 방문건강관리사업은 지역보건법에 근거하여 주로 취약계층을 대상으로 간호사에게 의해 비용부담 없이 제공되고 있으며, 2017년 12월을 기준으로 1,261,208명 등록 관리되는 것으로 나타났다. 보건소 방문건강관리사업 등록 대상자는 흡연율, 걷기 실천율, 혈압조절율, 혈당조절률 등이 향상되는 것으로 나타나, 건강행위와 질병관리 측면에서 긍정적인 효과가 있고, 비용-편익이 있다고 보고되었다. 노인장기요양보험에서의 방문간호는 노인장기요양보험법에 근거하여 간호사 또는 간호조무사에 의해 재가장기요양기관에서 방문간호를 제공하고 있으며, 시간당 정해진 수가에 따라 비용을 받고 있는데, 2017년에 전체 요양급여비의 0.2%만이 방문간호로 이용하는 것으로 나타났다. 재가장기요양보험 방문간호 이용자는 비이용자에 비해 의료비도 더 적게 쓰고, 입원일도 적다고 보고되었다. 의료기관 가정간호는 의료법에 근거하여 2명 이상의 가정간호사(가정전문간호사)를 고용한 의료기관에서 의사의 처방 하에 가정간호서비스를 제공하는데, 2017년 460명의 가정간호사가 가정간호서비스를 제공하고, 전체 의료비의 0.038%가 가정간호비용으로 지불된 것으로 나타났다. 우리나라 가정방문간호 유형은 관련법이나 인력, 사업 대상이 다르지만, 서비스 이용자의 건강관리에 효과가 있고, 비용-편익이 상당히 높은 것으로 나타났다. 우리나라 가정방문간호를 발전과 활성화를 위해 세 개 유형의 가정방문간호 서비스가 통합적으로 제공될 수 있는 방안을 모색하고, 근로 조건의 개선, 가정방문간호서비스 제공인력기준이나 방문간호수가 체계의 개선과 같은 법령의 개정 등을 고려할 필요가 있다고 본다.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.51-59
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• 2023

Purpose: We evaluated the status of patients enrolled in South Korea's pediatric palliative care pilot project based on the experience of a single center. This study examined factors related to end-of-life services and differences in medical costs. Methods: The medical records of 120 patients referred by a pediatric palliative care team were analyzed retrospectively. Data from July 1 to February 28, 2022 were collected and analyzed using the chi-square test and the Mann-Whitney U test. Results: Volunteer programs and psychological support (100%), family support and education (99.2%), and financial support through institutional linkage (62.5%) were provided to the participants. In the deceased group, there were no significant differences in general characteristics, which included age, gender, primary disease, religion, duration of hospitalization in an intensive care unit (ICU) and non-intensive care unit (non-ICU). However, the ICU group had fewer opportunities to access individual pain and physical symptom management than the non-ICU group and there were limitations in linking with external resources. Medical expenses were significantly different for the ICU group, with a 3-times higher average cost than the non-ICU group. Conclusion: Although an individualized approach is needed for each patient in pediatric palliative care, psychosocial care is essential. In addition, if early intervention for end-of-life pediatric patients is available from a palliative care team, the cost burden of medical care for patients and their families should be minimal.

• 한국병원경영학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.48-70
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to make an analysis of the impact of the DRG payment system on medical care pattern and cost of cataract surgery in a general hospital. The subjects were 173 patients whose DRG severity grade was zero, selected from among the hospitalized who underwent cataract surgery before and after the joining to the demonstrational operation of the third year DRG payment system. Their medical records and the details of their medical bills were examined to find out the length of hospital stay, medical care pattern provided to them, the cost of medical care, and the quality of medical care. The length of stay and the amount of medical care supplied during being in hospital dropped significantly for both single-eye and double-eyes cataract surgery groups. The amount of antibiotic use went down during the hospitalization and upon discharge from the hospital, but decreased after discharge. The total medical bills and the rate of basic examination implementation increased in the OPD before hospitalization but after discharge dropped. For double-eyes cataract patients, the rate of double-eyes cataract surgery went down. The total medical bills of DRG payment system converted into the fee-for-service system was greater by 113.3% for the single-eye cataract surgery group and by 102.9% for the doble-eyes cataract surgery group, compared to that by the fee-for-service. The contribution shared by the insurance corporation increased for both single-eye and double-eyes cataract surgery groups, but the copayment by the insured went down. Regarding the treatment outcome, no difference was found in complication rate, resurgery rate and mortality rate before and after the joining to the DRG payment system was implemented. The use of special lens lessened significantly. The amount of medical care supplied during hospitalization decreased but the complication rate didn't increase. But the increased use of low-price artificial cataract and the avoidance of double-eyes cataract surgery was observed. The phenomenon decreased number of OPD visit and the decreased total medical bills of OPD care after discharge in this hospital required further evaluation.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.29-48
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to analyze medical expenses by decedents in their last year of life and compare them with those by survivors during the year 2008. This study is conducted firstly in Korea, except some studies focusing on medical cost of decedents from specific diseases. To study this, national health insurance(NHI) claims data was used with medicaid claims data. The study group(decedents) was selected from the insurance entitlement file who were dropped out from January to December of 2008. The control group(survivors) was selected from the entitlement file by stratified sampling with keeping age-sex composition of the study group. The medical expenses of decedents during one year before death were measured and compared with those of survivors by sex and age. And the medical expenses were analyzed by causes of death, and also the expenses were examined by each item of medical services. On average, the medical expense amounted to 11 million Korean Won per decedent during their last year of life in 2008. The medical expense per decedent was 9.3 higher than that of survivor. The death-related expense of under the age 35 was about 16 million Won, compared with 4 million Won in the case of over the age 95, in average. The death-related expense is higher in younger ages. This means that more medical resources are put in to save life in younger ages. Total death-related expenditure took 8.3 percent in total NHI expenditures. Of the death-related medical expenses, the largest one was injection-related cost which shares twenty five percent, and the second largest one was hospitalization charges, and then the third one was surgery cost. The results of this study suggested that we should pay attention to the medical expenses in the last of year of life when we study health care expenditure in Korea. In addition, we have to deliberate health care policy to cope with medical expenditures before death in more efficient way.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.53-83
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• 1993

A small number of high cost patients usually spend a larger proportion of scarce health resources. Korea is no exception. Under the national health insurance, 12% of the insured persons have consumed approximately half of the national health insurance expenditures. Therefore, it is necessary to identify the characteristics of the high cost patient group, if we would like to reduce them. This study has defined high cost patients as those who have spent one and half million won and over per 6 months. The study reveals that high cost users are those who have a longer length of stays(LOS), 40days of LOS in the 6 months, have multiple admissions, 2 to 3 admissions per 6 months and are the elderly patients. They have spent 814.126won per on the average, and commonly suffered from malignant neoplasms, circulatory diseases, fracture, diabetes mellitus, etc. Unlike the case of western developed countries, early readmissions are not the major causes of high cost spending in Korea. Undoubtedly, a lengthy admission is the main cause of large spending. Health policies should vigorously be explored to respond appropriately. There are evidences that hospital beds are often misused. As the Korean health care system is lacking in a mechanism of patient evaluation under the fee-for-service remuneration system, an idea of progressive patient care needs to be tested. The Goverment should set up health policy to diversify the role of long-term care facilities and encourage people to establish them. Further studies are needed to identify factors influencing large medical bills necessary for formulating the health policy on cost containment.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.202-209
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• 2018

Health care has two different facets. One is commodity and another is a right of human being. Health care as a commodity is utilized by demand approach in market. Demand is determined by economic factors such as price and income. From the last third of the 19th century until the early 1920s, priority of sickness insurance was replacing the income that workers lost as a result of illness and injury. By the 1920s, the capacity of applied biological and medical science was remarkably developed. Development of medical science stimulated the cost of medical care, and the burden of increased medical care cost required new role of medical care security system. In 1942, Beveridge report was published in United Kingdom, and health care was considered as a right of human being. In 1948, United Nations declared heath care as a right in the Universal Declaration of Human Right. In most countries introduced new medical care security policy based on health care as a right. The viewing health care as a commodity must be shifted toward need based care as a right. Need were understood to rest on demographic, epidemiological, scientific, and medical knowledge factors. Bring needed care to the population could best be achieved institutionally by a hierarchy of provider organizations, guided by planning bodies, which would provide comprehensive benefits. In Korea, health care in social health insurance (SHI) is considered as a commodity not a right. However, health policies under SHI must be need approach based on health care as a right. Mismatch between health policies and ideology of SHI made big troubles. It is important to realize ideology of SHI for good health policies.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.343-349
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• 2019

본 연구는 노인장기요양보험제도가 제도 이용자 가구의 소비 지출에 미친 영향을 평가하고자 한국복지패널 3차년도와 11차년도 조사자료를 이용하였다. 연구대상은 제도를 이용한 프로그램집단과 이용하지 않은 통제집단으로 구성하였다. 집단간 특성차이는 카이제곱검정과 t-test를 이용하였으며, 이중차이 다중회귀분석을 실시하여 소비지출에 대한 영향요인을 파악하였다. 연구결과 노인장기요양보험제도는 제도 이용자 가구의 보건의료비에 통계적으로 유의한 영향을 주어 보건의료비가 증가(${\beta}=3.06$)하는 효과가 나타났다. 그러나 총생활비, 기본비, 교육비, 교양오락비에서는 통계적으로 유의한 효과가 나타나지 않았다. 따라서 전반적인 제도의 효과를 나타내기 위해 본인부담금을 낮추고, 제도의 서비스의 내용과 질 향상을 높이도록 노력해야 할 것이다.