Development of unit cost for the health services offered at King FAHD Central hospital Jazan, Saudi Arabia

Ghilan, Khalid; Mehmood, Asim; Ahmed, Zafar; Nahari, Ahmed; Almalki, Mohammed; Jabour, Abdulrahman; Khan, Fahad

doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2020.10.055

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“…The hospital costs were estimated at $950 (Saudi Riyal SR 3562) per inpatient day taking the averages of some of the lowest reported figures and ED visit was estimated at $1200 (SR 4500) per occurrence. [ 20 21 ]…”

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Telemedicine monitoring of high-risk coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients by Family Medicine service after discharge from the Emergency Department

Khalid

Imran²,

Imran³

et al. 2021

J Fam Community Med

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Telemedicine monitoring of high-risk coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients by Family Medicine service after discharge from the Emergency Department

Khalid

Imran²,

Imran³

et al. 2021

J Fam Community Med

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“…Cost knowledge helps administrators and policymakers improve the quality of medical care and make cost projections. Hospital costing information support improving the effective distribution of resources and patient performance [1]. It also offers basic information on setting user fees for the community with quality [2].…”

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“…However, allocations in the health care sector were traditionally allocated based on the figures of the previous year without performing costing exercises at the patient or service level. Recently, a costing exercise was performed in a tertiary hospital [1]. There is a need for a study exploring the budget allocation strategy and health care costs at the hospital, patient, or service level.…”

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Patient-Level Cost Estimation for Health Services at Secondary Hospital, Saudi Arabia

Mehmood

Ahmed²,

Azeez³

et al. 2022

Open Access Maced J Med Sci

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Cost information can help to improve the quality of medical care budgeting, and it can also improve the efficient allocation of resources and patient outcomes. The objective of this study was to estimate the inpatient unit cost of healthcare services in a secondary hospital in Saudi Arabia. A cross-sectional retrospective approach was applied to categorize the inpatients discharged from the hospital from January to December 2018. A top-down costing method for cost estimation was used. We found that the overhead cost center holds 40.17% of the total hospital cost, and intermediate and final care cost centers consumed 25.50% and 34.33%, respectively. Among inpatients wards, the Surgical ward had the highest operational cost (39.27%). Human resources consumed the hospital's highest resources (75%) on salaries. The hospital's cost structure was not remarkable and needs revolutionary changes to adopt the new payment mechanism envisioned in the 2030 Saudi vision.

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“…One of the critical outcomes of this study was estimating the average departmental cost and the average cost of each patient per day. 11 It was intended that such information would permit a valuable comparison of the cost performance by using the case mix methodology within hospital departments and across hospitals.…”

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Inpatient Case-mix Cost Vs Average Cost for Health Care Services in King Fahd Central Hospital, Saudi Arabia: A Comparative Study

Mehmood

Ahmed

Ghilan

et al. 2021

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Health care systems aim to deliver high-quality medical care while considering efficient resource usage and cost-effective forms of interventions. Such purposes require scientific tools or mechanisms which aid in cost assessment before the efforts of cost reduction are considered. Diagnosis-related groups based costing methodology (Case-mix) is considered one of the preferred costing approaches in the health care sector. King Fahd Central hospital Jazan, the only tertiary hospital in the Jazan region, was selected for case-mix system-based patient-level costing of health services. The study’s objective was to estimate the cost per Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) per inpatient admission and compare it with the already established average cost of health care services for inpatients. We applied a cross-sectional retrospective approach to categorize the inpatients based on their diagnosis and procedures and then estimate the actual cost of health care services provided to inpatients during 2018 and compared it with the average cost of the health services. There was a considerable difference between DRG-based costing (SAR 269,663,897) and average costing (SAR 247,035,938). The Diagnosis Related Group costing was found to be more reliable and representative of the services provided to the patients and is recommended to be used for reimbursement purposes.

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Development of unit cost for the health services offered at King FAHD Central hospital Jazan, Saudi Arabia

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

Telemedicine monitoring of high-risk coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients by Family Medicine service after discharge from the Emergency Department

Telemedicine monitoring of high-risk coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients by Family Medicine service after discharge from the Emergency Department

Patient-Level Cost Estimation for Health Services at Secondary Hospital, Saudi Arabia

Inpatient Case-mix Cost Vs Average Cost for Health Care Services in King Fahd Central Hospital, Saudi Arabia: A Comparative Study

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