Journal of Society of Preventive Korean Medicine (대한예방한의학회지)
- Volume 11 Issue 2
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- Pages.175-188
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- 2007
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- 1226-7066(pISSN)
An Analysis of Automobile Insurance and Health Insurance Patients' Uses of the Medical Services
자동차보험 환자와 건강보험 환자의 의료 이용 양상 분석 - 일개 대학병원을 대상으로 -
- Yoo, Hyeong-Sik (Kyungbuk College) ;
- Park, Tae-Seab (Seoul National University Bundang Hospital)
- Published : 2007.12.31
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to confirm the reasons why the medical institutes avoid the traffic accident victims covered by the automobile insurance. For this purpose, a university hospital was sampled to comparatively analyze days of hospitalization, average medical cost per day, ratio of optional medical cost, average cost by injury/age group/department, distribution of MRI photographing, etc., between health insurance and automobile insurance patients. Accordingly, in order to assure automobile patients of a reasonable rights of medical services, it is deemed necessary to arrange a fair system encouraging them reduce the days of their hospitalization as well as a complementary mechanism preventing unnecessary expensive medical services due to the hazard.