What are the costs for patients in hospitals?

2024-08-08 10:54:00, Ekonomi CNA

What are the costs for patients in hospitals?

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From 100 Lek for patients who perform radiotherapy sessions to about 344 thousand Lek per patient, for those hospitalized in psychiatric hospitals, the Ministry of Health calculates the costs for patients in the period January-April 2024 hospitalized in state hospitals.

The highest costs worth about 344 thousand ALL per patient are calculated for those hospitalized in psychiatric hospitals. There were high costs of up to 21,000 ALL for patients hospitalized with cardiology problems.

While the lowest costs per patient are calculated for patients with tumor diseases who perform radiotherapy sessions. The cost per patient is calculated at 100 ALL.

According to the data of the Monitoring report of the Ministry of Health, in the period January-April, the number of hospitalized patients is 105,722 patients against the predicted 397,580, with a cost of ALL 78,740/patient. Hospital admissions in the period have increased by 6% compared to the months of January-April 2023.

There was also an increase of about 3% in hospitalizations for patients hospitalized in cardiology, compared to January-April 2023.

According to the report of the Ministry of Health, the number of patients treated by the cardiology and cardiac surgery packages is 3,309 patients against the anticipated 9,720, with a cost of ALL 20,713/patient.

Beds in psychiatric hospitals have decreased significantly.

While the costs per patient of psychiatry are among the highest, due to the increase in staff. For January-April 2023, 730 patients were admitted to state psychiatric hospitals, or 40% less than the same period of the previous year. The cost of treatment is calculated at 343,920 ALL/patient.

"The deviation in this product lies in the fact of increasing the number of employees and, therefore, the salary fund", says the report of the Ministry of Health.

For January-April 2024, with radiotherapy sessions, 10,133 patients were treated with radiotherapy against the anticipated 25,091, at a cost of 100 ALL/patient. The number of treated patients has increased by 22% compared to January-April 2023.

Also, for January-April, 67,125 dialysis patients were treated at a cost of ALL 10,652/session. The number of dialysis sessions increased by 9% over the same 4 months of 2023.

The number of patients treated with cataracts for the first 4 months of 2024 is 1,465 patients against the predicted 4,326, with a cost of 1,433 ALL/patient. Their number increased by about 5%.

For January-April 2024, the number of patients with reimbursable drugs increases by 12%

According to the Ministry of Health, 392,075 patients were treated with the list of reimbursable drugs for the months of January-April 2024, at a cost of 4,578 ALL per patient.

The number of patients with chronic diseases treated from the list of reimbursable drugs has increased by about 12%.

4.2 billion ALL out of 12 billion ALL, or 34.7% of the annual plan, was spent on the reimbursement of drugs on the list.

For the period, according to the statistical analysis of the accepted values ??of drug reimbursement, an indicative list was received in the amount of 4,245.6 million ALL, or 75.7 million ALL (1.8%) more than the same period last year.

During the first 4 months, 392,075 patients benefited from the list of reimbursed drugs, or 42,067 patients more than the same period last year.

44,700 patients have benefited from the reimbursed list of diabetes tablets, or 2,626 patients more than the same period last year, with a reimbursement of tablets, worth 47.2 million ALL, or 18.6 million ALL more than the same period last year./ Monitor