[Impact of Morbidity on Health Care Costs of a Department of Health through Clinical Risk Groups. Valencian Community, Spain]
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[Impact of Morbidity on Health Care Costs of a Department of Health through Clinical Risk Groups. Valencian Community, Spain]
Abstract
Background: Risk adjustment systems based on diagnosis stratify the population according to the observed morbidity. The aim of this study was to analyze the total health expenditure in a health area, relating to age, gender and morbidity observed in the population.
Methods: Observational cross-sectional study of population and area of health care costs in the Health District of Denia-Marina Salud (Alicante) in 2013. Population (N=156,811) were stratified by Clinical Risk Groups into 9 states of health, state 1 being healthy, and state 9 the highest disease burden. Each inhabitant was charged with the hospital costs, primary care and outpatient pharmacy to obtain the total costs. Health status and severity by age and gender, as well as the costs of each group were analysed. The statistical tests, student t and χ2 were applied to verify the existence of significant differences between and intra groups.
Results: The average cost per inhabitant was 983 euros which increased from 240 euros to 42,881 at the state 9 and severity level 6. Patients of health states 5 and 6 caused the largest expenditure by concentration of the population, but health states 8 and 9 had the highest average expenditure, with 80% of hospitalised cost.
Conclusions: A different composition of health expenditure per individual morbidity was corroborated, with an exponential growth in hospital spending.
Objetivo: Los sistemas de ajuste de riesgo basados en diagnóstico estratifican la población según la morbilidad observada. El objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar el gasto sanitario total en un área de salud en función de la edad, el sexo y la morbilidad observada en la población.
Metodos: Estudio observacional de corte transversal y de ámbito poblacional de los costes de atención sanitaria en el Departamento de salud Dénia-Marina Salud (Alicante) durante el año 2013. Se estratificó a la población (N=156.811) según Grupos de Riesgo Clínico en 9 estados de salud, siendo sano el estado 1 y el 9 el de mayor carga de morbilidad. A cada habitante se le imputaron los costes hospitalarios, de atención primaria y de farmacia ambulatoria para obtener los costes totales. Se analizaron los estados de salud y gravedad por edad y sexo así como los costes de cada grupo. Se aplicaron las pruebas estadísticas t de student y χ2 para verificar la existencia de diferencias significativas entre e intra grupos.
Resultados: El coste medio por habitante fue de 983 euros oscilando desde 240 hasta 42.881 en el estado 9 y nivel de gravedad 6. Los pacientes de los estados de salud 5 y 6 realizaron el mayor gasto, pero los estados de salud 8 y 9 tuvieron el mayor gasto medio, siendo el 80% hospitalario.
Conclusiones: Se corrobora una diferente composición del gasto sanitario por morbilidad individual, con un crecimiento exponencial del gasto hospitalario.
Keywords: Community Health Planning; Cost analysis; Economics, Pharmaceutical; Emergency Service, Hospital; Healths Economics; Hospital Costs; Morbidity; Primary health care; Risk Adjustment; Spain.
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Morbidity and health costs: Towards a Benchmarking?Rev Esp Salud Publica. 2016 Jun 24;90:e1-3. Rev Esp Salud Publica. 2016. PMID: 27338796 English, Spanish. No abstract available.
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