The Citizens’ Alliance for Economic Justice Practice (Gyeongsilryeon) is holding a press conference on the 22nd at the auditorium of Gyeongsilryeon, Jongno-gu, Seoul, to announce the status of health insurance coverage at 74 national and private university hospitals. yunhap news
Although the government is raising the health insurance coverage rate to reduce the burden of national medical expenses, it was found that the proportion of medical expenses borne by individual patients due to unpaid treatment, etc. in large hospitals on the front line.
The Citizens’ Federation for Economic Justice Practice (Kyungsilyeon) held a press conference on the 22nd and announced the results of analysis of health insurance coverage rates of 74 national and private university hospitals.
The health insurance coverage rate is calculated based on the data determined by the court in the lawsuit filed against the Health Insurance Corporation in 2015 against the Health Insurance Corporation by the court and the hospital accounting data reported by each hospital to the Ministry of Health and Welfare. did.
The Moon Jae-in administration is increasing health insurance financial expenditures by 12% every year to raise the health insurance coverage rate of 62.7% as of 2017 to 70% during the term of office. As of 2019, the health insurance coverage rate was 64.2%. If a total of 1 million won per person was spent on medical expenses, 642,000 won was paid by health insurance and 358,000 won by patients.
As a result of analyzing data for four years from 2016 to 2019, the health insurance coverage rate of 74 university hospitals was an average of 64.7%. It is similar to the national average (as of 2019). The average coverage rate of national university (public) hospitals was 68.2%, 5 percentage points higher than that of private university (private) hospitals.
Among 74 hospitals, Hwasun Chonnam National University Hospital (79.2%) was surveyed with the highest coverage rate. On the contrary, the lowest hospital was CHA Gangnam CHA Hospital (47.5%), which showed that patients directly pay more than half of medical expenses. The level of patient medical expense burden at Gangnam Cha Hospital is 2.5 times higher than that of Hwasun Chonnam National University Hospital.
At the Catholic University of Daegu Chilgok Catholic Hospital and Kyunghee University Hospital, the health insurance coverage rate was not 50%, so patients paid more than half of the medical expenses. Excluding 3 hospitals, the 10 hospitals in the lowest coverage rate were mostly private university hospitals located in the metropolitan area.
“To reduce the burden of public medical expenses, it is necessary to increase the supply of public medical care and an active management policy for the health insurance coverage rate of existing large hospitals.” The reorganization plan should be proactively promoted.”
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