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TARTU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
General information
Structure
Analysis and marketing department
Contracting
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Short history of TU Hospital
• In May 1804 was opened Tartu University Hospital – Clinicum Universitatis Dorpatensis
• University Hospital until 1940
• Independent governmental hospitals whose communication with Tartu University was not formalized
• June 16th 1993 state roof-organization Clinicum of Tartu University was established
• Disputes over the connections of Clinicum and Tartu University were held in 1995-1997
• Tartu University Hospital Foundation as an integral organization was established in 1998 by the Republic of Estonia, University of Tartu and city of Tartu
• 1999 – restructuring; January 1st 2000 new structure
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Basic structure of the TU Hospital
Clinics Medical services Administrative services
Management Board:• Mr Urmas Siigur - chairman + finances• Mr Mart Einasto - staff, quality, marketing,PR, IT• Mr Margus Ulst - treatment, training, research• Mrs Malle Keis - business, building, equipment
Council / Supervisory Board:• Estonian State (M.Soc) – 3
• Tartu University – 3• City of Tartu - 2
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Clinics and Medical Services
A n ae s the s io lo gy a nd in te n sive ca re
H a em a to lo gy an d on co lo gy
C a rd iova scu la r a nd th o ra c ic su rg e ry
S u rg e ry
O to rh in o la ryn go lo gy
N e u ro lo gy
O p h th a lm o lo gy
S to m a to lo gy
T ra um ato lo gy an d o rth op a ed ics
O b s te tric s a n d gyn e co lo gy
S u rg ica l c lin ics
C a rd io lo gy
P u lm o n o lo gy
D e rm ato lo gy
P sych ia try
P e d ia trics
In te rn a l d isea ses
S p o rts m e d icin e a n d re h ab ilita tion
T h e ra p ica l c lin ics
B lo od cen te r
P h a rm a cy
L a b ora to ry
P a tho lo gy
R a d io lo gy
S u rg e ry se rv ice
C u s tom e r S e rv ice
M e d ica l se rv ices
A n a lys is a nd m arke ting
In fo rm a tics
C h a n ce ry
In te rn a l a u d it ing
F in an ce an d b ud g eting
P e rson n e l
T e ch n ica l
C a te ring
B u ild ing an d h o use ke ep ing
P u b lic re la t io ns
C e n tre o f M e d ica l In fo rm a tion
A d m in istra t ive se rv ices
T U H o sp ita l
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Basic facts (2008) I
• 16 clinics with ~ 940 hospital bed
The number of beds has been reduced 40% since 1995 – from 1605
• Per year treated:
– 43 500 inpatients (average length of stay 6,1 days, it has been reduced 44% since 1995 - from 10,8)
– 11 500 daycases
– 450 000 outpatient visits
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Basic facts II
• Personnel 3558
• Doctors 684 in 35 specialities
•Nurses 1169
•Assistant nurses 838
•Technical staff 867
• 620 students / 535 000 hours per year
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Basic facts III
Turnover ~ 1 800 m EEK ~ 109 m € (2008)
• Estonian Health Insurance Fund - 90%;
• Other medical institutions (family practitioners, general hospitals etc) - 4%;
• State budget - 2%;
• Out-of-pocket payments - 2%;
• Other income (traffic insurance etc) - 1%
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Short history of contracting negotiations with HIF
• …95 – no contract, budget financing principle => 29 local HIF, chaos, intoducing of Central HIF
• 95…99 – first contracts, no experience, message throw mass media “HIF is indebted to hospitals”
• 99…05 – consolidation of hospitals and HIF; introduction of new contractas – cases and average costs. Main arguments “emergency versus elective services”
• 05…08 – economic growth, expansion. Main arguments “content of services, new services”
• 09… - cost containment, surviving
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“Big issues” in contracting
• Waiting lists
• Expensive cases– relatively (2...10*average) and
– extremely (over 1 M EEK – 6667 €)
• Rapidly growing specialties– LOR
– Cardiology
– Andrology
• New methods, techniques, guidelines, drugs
• New services
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Eternal problem with HIF - prices
• Content of services in service list– Old services (renewed content)
– New services
• Prices– …04 “negotiation based” prices
– 04… cost (evidence) based prices
• Wages
• Different content in different level hospitals
• “Political coeficients”
• DRG-s– Margins / differences
– Exclusions
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Analyses and Marketing department
Analyses and Marketing department
Medical statistics MarketingMedical statistics Marketing
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Analysis and Marketing Department II
The main task of medical statistics department is
collecting and analysing of the medical statistics• to control the patient care records;
• to prepare statistical reports and analyses for clinics and Estonian Medical Statistics Bureau;
• to archive and charter medical documents;
• to collaborate with different registers of medical statistics;
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Analysis and Marketing Department III
The main tasks of marketing department are:• contract management• negotiations with health insurance fund and clinics• imposing non-emergencies’ (planned patients)
treating limits for clinics• submitting invoices to the EHIF• carry out billing on the basis of electronic care
records
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Analysis and Marketing Department IV
• analysing performance data, data-processing • processing claims for mistakes in invoices • maintaining waiting lists• Patient satisfaction surveys• …
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Contracts with Health Insurance Fund 2009
Tartu Department70%
Viru Department13%
Harju Department3%
Pärnu Department3%
Central Department11%
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Contracts with Health Insurance Fund
1534,9
1 550,2
1 279,0
1 017,1
903,9
764,2
1381,41
1523,3
1 511,5
1 213,6
960,2
847,7
731,6
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
Contract at the end of year Contract at the beginning of year
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Contracts with Health Insurance Fund 2009
readiness for emergency care1,5%
dental care1,1%
prevention1,1%
long-term care0,8%
Other4,6%
inpatient care64,2%
outpatient care26,8%
day-care4,4%
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Treatment Invoices
• ~ 570 000 invoices per year
• The payment of ambulatory specialist care and inpatient care is based on contracts with the EHIF on the basis of the volume and average cost of cases treated in each speciality.
• Payment is based on service prices set out on the price list (the list of health services, established by a regulation of the Government of the Republic)
• All hospitals are paid the same prices; there is no adjustment for hospital characteristics such as teaching status.
• From 2004 - 10% of each case is reimbursed using prices based on diagnoses-related groups (DRGs) and 90% by fees for services
from 2005 - DRG 50% +fee for services 50%;
from 2009 . DRG 70% + fee for services 30%
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Contracting process – continuous process
• Preparation period in hospital (overview of the main changes and developments maid in patient treatments by medical specialties)
• Negotiations with health insurance fund (priorities, both side possibilities, compromises, justifications)
• Agreeing contract (contract is the formal ‘tip of the iceberg of a deeper relationship)
• Contract management • Evaluation, analyses of performance data (meetings with health insurance fund once a month)
• Renegotiating, asking additional money with justification, good proved data, (to improve the accessibility of ambulatory care by reducing waiting times)
• New contract evolves from a previous contract taking into account HIF budget, pricelist changes, changes in clinics, new treatment methods,….
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Conditions of contract for financing medical treatment
The following conditions shall be agreed upon in a contract for financing medical treatment:
• 1) the term of the contract;
• 2) the amount of obligations of insured persons assumed by the health insurance fund during a specific period of time and the total amount of obligations, and amounts for each of the medical professions established by the Minister of Social Affairs
• 3) the price payable for the provision of the health service, taking into consideration the reference price and limit provided for in the list of health services;
• 4) the minimum volume of health services provided;
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Conditions of contract for financing medical treatment
• many other conditions necessary for ensuring the efficient and purposeful use of health insurance funds
• The health insurance fund shall enter into contracts for financing medical treatment only with health care providers who maintain waiting lists pursuant to clause 56 (1) 4) of the Health Services Organisation Act and enable entry into contracts for provision of health service through the health information system.
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Conditions of contract
• Our cost and volume contract covers five years, fiscal appendix is agreed for one year
• Large contract is subdivided into medical specialities
• All specialty procedures (emergency and planned; minor cases and expensive) are usually included in the one specialty contract
• For some services special detail rows ( heart disease surgery, deliveries, hip replacements)
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Maximal waiting time
• Primary care
- in the case of acute illness – 1 day
- elective visit to the family doctor – 3 days
• Specialist-care
-outpatient 6 weeks
- emergency care – 1 day
- acute care – 3 days
- elective care – 8 months
excl - joint replacements – 2,5 years
- eye (cataract) surgery – 1,5 years
- ear-nose-throat surgery – 2 years
- cochlear implantations – 1 years
- cardiac surgery – 8 months
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Our strength in contracting process
• the largest provider of medical care in Estonia,
• there are no alternative providers for most services in our area
• all medical specialties are represented here
• In several fields (kidney, bone marrow and liver transplantation and congenital heart disease surgery) the only medical institution in Estonia
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Main problems of contracting
• Exceeding contracted volumes• DRG influence on treatment cost• The treatment cases vary in cost in wide range (risk
sharing reserves)
• Outpatient waiting times are longer than HIF standard
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