A Comparative Study on the Financial Index of Hospital in accordance with the Weight of Medical Treatment Fee for the Rehabilitative Medicine Department

재활의학과 진료비 비중에 따른 병원 재무지표 비교연구

  • Oh, Chang Seok (Department of Health Science, Graduated school Kosin University) ;
  • Jung, Cu Jin (Department of Health Science, Graduated school Kosin University) ;
  • Park, Bo Kyung (Department of Health Science, Graduated school Kosin University) ;
  • Bae, Sung Kwon (Department of Health Science, Graduated school Kosin University)
  • 오창석 (고신대학교 대학원 보건과학과) ;
  • 정구진 (고신대학교 대학원 보건과학과) ;
  • 박보경 (고신대학교 대학원 보건과학과) ;
  • 배성권 (고신대학교 대학원 보건과학과)
  • Published : 2007.04.01

Abstract

The current hospital industry is showing relatively low profitability in comparison with other industries due to the low medical fees and high costs. Therefore, our government presented the direction of improvement through model execution and support of the specialized hospitals. However, it is estimated that the specialized hospitals also will show differentiated management performances in accordance with their specialized fields due to the characteristics of medical treatment. Therefore, this study had attempted an analysis on the financial index in accordance with the weight of medical treatment items for the rehabilitative medicine department among the whole hospital groups through getting out of analyzing financial indices of individual hospitals centered at their costs. For this p개pose, this study had carried out its research by partially reciting the study on the plan for utilizing participations of private health resources to expand rehabilitative medicine services into the private people of the Korea Health Industry Development Institute(KHIDI). As its results, it was shown that the stability, profitability, activity and productivity of hospitals with high weight of medical treatment for the rehabilitative medicine department were lower than those for the general hospitals. To support smooth operations of these hospitals 'with high weight of medical treatment for the rehabilitative medicine department or of specialized rehabilitation hospitals, it is judged that the plan such as the support for hospital management fund and the additional recognition on the rehabilitative fees, etc. together with the actualization of medical fees must be provided for the institutions which are providing rehabilitative medical services more than the fixed percentage and being equipped with the sufficient medical equipment and personnel to do them.

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