Matching comprehensive health insurance reimbursements to their real costs: the case of antenatal care visits in a region of Peru

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

Patricia J. García²  Aldo Lama¹  José Enrique Pérez-Lu²  Fiona Cianci³  Fern Terris-Prestholt⁵  Kristian Schultz Hansen⁵  Daniel Cobos Muñoz⁴ 

[1] Regional Health Directorate of Callao, Regional Government of Callao, Callao, Peru;School of Public Health and Administration, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru;Department of Public Health, HSE Carlow/Kilkenny, Lacken, Kilkenny, Ireland;University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland;Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

关键词: Sustainability;    Social health insurance;    Cost;    Antenatal care;   

Others  :  1226220
DOI  :  10.1186/s12962-015-0042-z

 received in 2015-03-25, accepted in 2015-09-10,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

Prepaid contributory systems are increasingly being recognized as key mechanisms in achieving universal health coverage in low and middle-income countries. Peru created the Seguro Integral de Salud (SIS) to increase health service use amongst the poor by removing financial barriers. The SIS transfers funds on a fee-for-service basis to the regional health offices to cover recurrent cost (excluding salaries) of pre-specified packages of interventions. We aim to estimate the full cost of antenatal care (ANC) provision in the Ventanilla District (Callao-Peru) and to compare the actual cost to the reimbursement rates provided by SIS.

Methods

The economic costs of ANC provision in 2011 in 8 of the 15 health centres in Ventanilla District were estimated from a provider perspective and the actual costs of those services covered by the SIS fee of $3.8 for each ANC visit were calculated. A combination of step-down and bottom-up costing methodologies was used. Sensitivity analysis was conducted to test the uncertainty around estimated parameters and model assumptions. Results are reported in 2011 US$,

Results

The total economic cost of ANC provision in all 8 health centres was $569,933 with an average cost per ANC visit of $31.3 (95 % CI $29.7–$33.5). Salaries comprised 74.4 % of the total cost. The average cost of the services covered by the SIS fee was $3.4 (95 % CI $3.0–$3.8) per ANC visit. Sensitivity analysis showed that the probability of the cost of an ANC visit being above the SIS reimbursed fee is 1.4 %.

Conclusion

Our analysis suggests that the fee reimbursed by the SIS will cover the cost that it supposed to cover. However, there are significant threats to medium and longer term sustainability of this system as fee transfers represent a small fraction of the total cost of providing ANC. Increasing ANC coverage requires the other funding sources of the Regional Health Office (DIRESA) to adapt to increasing demand.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Cobos Muñoz et al.

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