Medicine expenditures in Sudan National Health Insurance Fund: an ABC-VEN analysis of 5-year medicine consumption

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed A. Mousnad ◽  
Mohamed Izham M. Ibrahim ◽  
Subish Palaian ◽  
Asrul A. Shafie
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
National Health Insurance ◽  
National Health ◽  
Insurance Fund ◽  
Health Insurance Fund ◽  
National Health Insurance Fund

Lipid-lowering therapy and patient adherence in the MULTI GAP 2013 trial

2014 ◽  
Vol 155 (17) ◽  
pp. 669-675
Author(s):  
Gábor Simonyi
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
National Health Insurance ◽  
National Health ◽  
Ldl Cholesterol ◽  
Patient Adherence ◽  
Lipid Lowering ◽  
Insurance Fund ◽  
Lipid Lowering Therapy ◽  
Health Insurance Fund ◽  
National Health Insurance Fund

Introduction: Dyslipidemia is a well-known cardiovascular risk factor. To achieve lipid targets patient adherence is a particularly important issue. Aim: To assess adherence and persistence to statin therapy in patients with atherosclerotic disease who participated in the MULTI Goal Attainment Problem 2013 (MULTI GAP 2013) study. Patient adherence was assessed using estimation by the physicians in charge and analysis of pick up rate of prescribed statins in 319 patients based on data of National Health Insurance Fund Administration of Hungary. Method: In the MULTI GAP 2013 study, data from standard and structured questionnaires of 1519 patients were processed. Serum lipid values of patients treated by different healthcare professionals (general practitioners, cardiologists, diabetologists, neurologists, and internists), treatment adherence of patients assessed by doctors and treatment adherence based on data of National Health Insurance Fund Administration of Hungary were analysed. Satisfaction of doctors with results of statin therapy and the relationship between the level of adherence and serum lipid values were also evaluated. Results: Considering the last seven years of survey data, the use of more effective statins became more prevalent with an about 70% increase of prescriptions of atorvastatin and rosuvastatin from 49% to 83%. Patients with LDL-cholesterol level below 2.5 mmol/l had 8 prescriptions per year. In contrast, patients who had LDL-cholesterol levels above 2.5 mmol/l had only 5.3–6.3 prescriptions per year. Patients who picked up their statins 10–12 or 7–9 times per year had significantly lower LDL-cholesterol level than those who had no or 1–3 pick up. The 100% persistence assessed by doctors was significantly lower (74%) based on data from the National Health Insurance Fund Administration of Hungary. About half of the patients were considered to display 100% adherence to lipid-lowering therapy by their doctors, while data from the National Health Insurance Fund Administration of Hungary showed only 36%. In patients with better adherence (90–100%) LDL-cholesterol levels below 2.5 mmol/l were more frequent (59.5%) compared to those with worse adherence. Satisfaction of doctors with lipid targets achieved was 69–80% in patients with total cholesterol between 4.5 and 6 mmol/l, and satisfaction with higher cholesterol values was also high (53–54%). Conclusions: The results show that doctors may overestimate patient adherence to lipid-lowering treatment. Based on data from the National Health Insurance Fund Administration of Hungary, satisfaction of doctors with high lipid level appears to be high. There is a need to optimize not only patient adherence, but adherence of doctors to lipid guidelines too.

scholarly journals A cukorbeteg-ellátás mutatóinak alakulása Magyarországon 2001–2014 között. Az Országos Egészségbiztosítási Pénztár adatbázis-elemzésének célja és módszertana

2016 ◽  
Vol 157 (32) ◽  
pp. 1259-1265 ◽  
Author(s):  
György Jermendy ◽  
Péter Kempler ◽  
Zsolt Abonyi-Tóth ◽  
György Rokszin ◽  
István Wittmann
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
National Health Insurance ◽  
National Health ◽  
Insurance Fund ◽  
Health Insurance Fund ◽  
Database Analysis ◽  
National Health Insurance Fund ◽  
Antidiabetic Treatment ◽  
Outpatient Departments ◽  
Central Database

In the last couple of years, database analyses have become increasingly popular among clinical-epidemiological investigations. In Hungary, the National Health Insurance Fund serves as central database of all medical attendances in state departments and purchases of drug prescriptions in pharmacies. Data from in- and outpatient departments as well as those from pharmacies are regularly collected in this database which is public and accessible on request. The aim of this retrospective study was to investigate the database of the National Health Insurance Fund in order to analyze the diabetes-associated morbidity and mortality in the period of years 2001–2014. Moreover, data of therapeutic costs, features of hospitalizations and practice of antidiabetic treatment were examined. The authors report now on the method of the database analysis. It is to be hoped that the upcoming results of this investigation will add some new data to recent knowledge about diabetes care in Hungary. Orv. Hetil., 2016, 157(32), 1259–1265.

scholarly journals A Comparative study on the cost effectiveness of intervention of noncommunicable disease in south Darfur 2017

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 019-025
Author(s):  
Yousif Adam Hussien Noreldin ◽  
Ekram Adam Eldoom
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
National Health Insurance ◽  
National Health ◽  
Noncommunicable Disease ◽  
Noncommunicable Diseases ◽  
Insurance Fund ◽  
Health Insurance Fund ◽  
National Health Insurance Fund ◽  
The Cost

Background: This study conducted to assess the cost effectiveness of common interventions used to control Noncommunicable diseases in south Darfur. Noncommunicable diseases are becoming an increasing public health concern due to their economic significance, and their great impact on the ability of affected individuals to contribute to their communities, and the high burden it represents on the health system. Objectives: To evaluate the role of health insurance fund in controlling Noncommunicable diseases. To assess cost effectiveness of the management of Noncommunicable disease within the National Health insurance fund system. Methods: This study is designed to use secondary data from the national health insurance fund in south Darfur, comparing the cost for the management of 3 selected Noncommunicable diseases (Hypertension, Heart disease, and Diabetes). I have reviewed the entire data of the year 2017 and compared the cost effectiveness of the currently used interventions against health promotion and coordinated approach within the national health insurance fund. Results: The 3 selected disease (Heart Disease, Hypertension and Diabetes) has significant burden on the health system, both financially and operationally. The NHIF concentrates on the management of Noncommunicable diseases without paying due attention to the importance of prevention strategies such as health promotion, community based integrated management of NCDs, and coordination among other sectors. Conclusion: To effectively reduce the financial burden of Noncommunicable disease; the NHIF needs to concentrate on prevention of Noncommunicable diseases through extensive health promotion campaigns, promotion of healthy lifestyle, and coordinated approach to controlling Noncommunicable disease.

scholarly journals Balanced Score Card and Service Delivery at National Health Insurance Fund in Mombasa County, Kenya

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (VI) ◽  
pp. 251-270
Author(s):  
Mohamed Said Intiswar ◽  
James Maina Rugami
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
National Health Insurance ◽  
National Health ◽  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Insurance Fund ◽  
Health Insurance Fund ◽  
National Health Insurance Fund ◽  
The Balanced Scorecard ◽  
The Public

The Public sector plays a critical role in the effective delivery of public services that are essential to the functioning of a state economy. The service delivery in the public sector has been noted to be ineffective due to self-interest service from the public sector officers, unlike the private sector, where focus is primarily on shareholder value. The study examined the effect of the balanced scorecard and service delivery at the national health insurance fund in Mombasa County, Kenya. The specific objectives of the study were to determine the effect of the financial perspective of the balanced scorecard, the effect of customer perspective of the balanced scorecard, the internal business perspective of balanced and examine the effect of innovation and learning perspective of balanced scorecard on service delivery at national health insurance fund in Mombasa County. The study is anchored on Balanced score card model and agency theory. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design that depicts the attributes of a specific circumstance, occasion, or case.  The targeted population of the study was 158 and the respondents were senior managers, middle level managers, lower level managers and the support staff working at national health insurance fund in Mombasa County. The study finds that the balanced scorecard improves systems of the cost structure, the organization creates more revenue opportunities, net shareholder value is maintained and the asset is well utilized. Additionally, it can be concluded that most employees are delighted with the financial evaluation process by use of the balanced scorecard. The study found a positive relationship between the balanced scorecard components namely customer focus, financial perspective, customer perspective, internal business perspective, innovation, learning aspect and service delivery. The study concluded that customer focus to enhance the service delivery could be through implementing customer satisfaction measures, implementing customer service charter, maintaining product functionality, maintaining customer relationship management and maintaining customer loyalty. The study recommended that the need for NHIF to achieve the balanced scorecard to be able to track financial results while simultaneously monitoring progress through building the capabilities and as well acquiring the intangible assets they would need future growth. Also, the study recommended the organization to consider the issue cost minimization strategy to enhance the service delivery to the customers. In addition to that, there is a need to have a permanent solution to steady funds to be able to meet its obligations. The study further recommended that the organization to embrace the balanced scorecard and will help improve communication between the management and customers thus improve on the quality service hence satisfy the needs of the customers.

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