Haroon Wadee Head: Health Systems & Policy BHF Trends in Specialist Costs 2005/2006
Mar 26, 2015
Haroon Wadee
Head: Health Systems & Policy
BHF
Trends in Specialist Costs
2005/2006
Annual increases to providers
Remuneration = Volume X unit price
% %
Funder perspective
Provider perspective
Which is the correct perspective?
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CMS 2006 report
• Specialist payments continue to climb
• Hospital payments levelling– ? Dispensing fee & SEP
• Verifiable pattern in BHF 2006 KPI report (in press)
Medical specialist cost trends3 administrator’s data aggregated
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1. PMB
2. 8%NHRPL
Payment trends of some disciplines for a administrator
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GYNAECOLOGISTS
ANAESTHETIST
PHYSICIAN
ORTHOPAEDICSURGEONS
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PAEDIATRICIANS
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2005/2006 % Payment Increase by Administrator
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32
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Anaesthetist Psychiatrists
%Admin 1 Admin 2 Admin 3 NHRPL impact
•Result of SAMA participation in NHRPL!
•? Some science behind NHRPL process
2005/2006 % payment increase for other specialists
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Admin 1 Admin 2 Admin 3
6.3% impact expected
Key issues currently exploring
• Policy and economic analysis of specialist cost increases in South Africa– Contextual analysis (historical, political-
economy & health system landscape)– Economic analysis – agency theory & moral
hazard– Preliminary stakeholder analysis
Funder Perspective• Key issue emerging is that of allocative inefficiency in
service provision.– Potential to off-set any efficiency gains from other policy
interventions– Potential to undermine cost-containment overall, impacting on
ability to increase access to medical aid market and in BBP context to widen the scope of benefits
– Efficiency relative to GEMS – exploration of issues – large risk pool, high employer subsidy, access of previously uninsured (or shifting of current insured)
– Sustainability of current schemes environment important factor – but also the future – LIMS and SHI
Remedies
• No Golden Rule
• Political pressure on SAMA with close engagement with NDOH, CMS and media
Key Messages
• Increases above NHRPL impact• Increases above CPIX• Increases above economic growth• Increases above employment growth• High increases – Paediatrics and O&G –
undermines ability to meet UN MDG’s and SA’s overall health system performance and ranking
• Obstacle to LIMS and eventual transition towards SHI
Remedies
• No Golden Rule• Political pressure on SAMA with close
engagement with NDOH, CMS and media• Medium-term – review experience of
financing/service-delivery models that have demonstrated affordable and quality service delivery.– To inform strategy
Traditional financing-services flows
Flows (with co-payments and out-of-pocket expenditure)
Member (consumer) Perspective
• Increased rate of co-payments and/or out-of-pocket expenditure– Equity consideration – regressive nature of
OOP– Relationship between consumer and scheme
under spotlight with fragmentation of trust – tilting scales in favour of providers
Remedies
• Improved communication to members to address information asymmetry – ongoing
• Engagement with CMS
Force-field analysis vis-à-vis NHRPL Process
<<<<<<<<<<<< <<<<<<<<<<<< <<<< >>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> NDOH CMS HPCSA Board of Healthcare Funders Medical Aid Schemes
Private hospitals SAMA
Private providers Consumers
Key issues currently exploring
• Policy and economic analysis of specialist cost increases in South Africa– Contextual analysis (historical, political-economy &
health system landscape)– Economic analysis – agency theory & moral hazard– Preliminary stakeholder analysis
• Diagnosis and procedure coding– Coding creep? – CPT4 vs ACHI vs ICHI – design and implementation
impacts
Thank You