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The aim of the study is to assess financial implications of Covid-19 pandemic on Turkish public hospitals and to discuss Turkish government's responses. A comparative analysis is carried out with the medical and financial data of Turkish public hospitals between March-December 2019 and March-December 2020. Outpatient services decreased by approximately 49%, inpatient admissions dropped by %35. Due to this decrease in the number of patients, outpatient revenues decreased by 37.8%, while inpatient revenues increased by 6.3% thanks to reimbursement supports by the Social Security Institution (SSI). On the other hand, total hospital expenses increased by 24% with the impact of Covid-19-related expenses. This increase is largely caused by performance-based supplementary payments, drugs, and operating expenses. Prospective global budget model helps healthcare financing stability for Turkish public hospitals. Public hospitals receive their global budgets to compensate for revenue shortfalls. The SSI also try to compensate the financial losses of public and private hospitals with additional reimbursement supports. However, policymakers and managers should prepare for the change of paradigm in the healthcare system and should concentrate to cost-effective policies (such as tele-health services) in hospitals as a result of Covid-19 demands.
this study aims to evaluate the financial effects of covid19 epidemic on public hospitals, and discuss the responses of the turkish government, for this, martaralık 2019 and martaralık 2020 were analyzed in a comparatively comparable manner of medical and financial indicators of public hospitals connected to the ministry of health between january 2019 and marchacrement 2020 in this period, the number of patients who live in a total of 49 patients, depending on the decline in the number of patients who have decreased 35, while the underlying patient treatment incomes increased by 63 percent with the support of the social security institution, which has increased the return of hospitalization of hospitalization in addition to a total performance of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalization of the hospitalized health care of the
Field : Sosyal, Beşeri ve İdari Bilimler
Journal Type : Uluslararası
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