Costs of unilateral inguinal hernioplasty operation in a teaching hospital: prices analysis of the unique health system and health plans operators
International Journal of Development Research
Costs of unilateral inguinal hernioplasty operation in a teaching hospital: prices analysis of the unique health system and health plans operators
Received 19th January, 2020; Received in revised form 27th February, 2020; Accepted 19th March, 2020; Published online 29th April, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Jackson Carlos Joaquim and Márcia Mello Costa De Liberal. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Introduction: University hospitals or not, are constantly making criticisms regarding the low values offered by the Unified Health System (UHS). Health Plan Operators (HPO) can be one of the alternatives to help the sustainability of these hospitals. Objectives: To present the hospital costs of inguinal hernioplasty surgery and compare them with UHS and HPO prices to find out if they were sufficient with the costs, if it had differences between them and which were more profitable. Method: This research was descriptive retrospective and consisted of a case study carried out in 2018 in a teaching hospital, philanthropic and non-profit in the State of São Paulo. Results: UHS costs were R$ 1.256,60 and HPO costs were R$ 1.292,69. Respectively, the prices paid were R$ 547,51 and R$ 3.405,73. Conclusion: HPO costs were higher (2.8%) than UHS costs. On the other hand, the average price predicted by the HPO proved to be (622%) higher than that of UHS.
