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The behavior of basic health insurance Organizations after the implementation of Relative Value of Health Services book in Iran: A qualitative study

Background: Since approximately 45% of basic health insurance (BHI) resources are spent and distributed based on the Relative Value of Health Services (RVHS) book, therefore, any revision in this book will most probably affect the behavior of health insurance organizations. The present study was pro...

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Autores principales: Yousefvand, Mani, Olyaeemanesh, Alireza, Arab, Mohammad, Jaafaripooyan, Ebrahim
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Publicado: Iran University of Medical Sciences 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6387796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30815405
http://dx.doi.org/10.14196/mjiri.32.110
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author Yousefvand, Mani
Olyaeemanesh, Alireza
Arab, Mohammad
Jaafaripooyan, Ebrahim
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Jaafaripooyan, Ebrahim
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description Background: Since approximately 45% of basic health insurance (BHI) resources are spent and distributed based on the Relative Value of Health Services (RVHS) book, therefore, any revision in this book will most probably affect the behavior of health insurance organizations. The present study was prospected to determine the effect of revising RVHS on behavior of BHI funds as the main providers of treatment resources. Methods: This is a qualitative study in which data were analyzed using content analysis method. Semi-structured interviews were used to gather the required data. 27 interviewees were chosen using purposive sampling method. Finally, MAXQDA software was used to analyze and code the data. Results: According to the results, revision of RVHS influenced the behavior of health insurance organizations. The most important changes in the behavior of health insurance funds involved the following: formation of a committee for cost management and handling the insurance documents, creating a uniform coding system for health services, redesigning the handling process of documents, increased share of insurance funds from health expenditures, with 300 new services added to basic package and revising the package according to the new version of the book. Furthermore, the rest of the changes included in the global payment method based on the new book, delay in paying claims, increased deductions based on the payment of expensive services on treatment protocols, holding periodic training courses, and teaching the new book as well as the procedures for handling the documents. Conclusion: With regard to the revision of RVHS and considering the incremental approach in revision of relative values, the increased claims of health services delivery centers and delay in payment of these claims were the most important changes in the behavior of health insurance funds. Health policy makers can overcome such issues and provide proper financial conditions through reduction of conversion factor and mobilization of resources. Such policies will open the space for best management of the behaviors affected by revision of relative values.
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spelling pubmed-63877962019-02-27 The behavior of basic health insurance Organizations after the implementation of Relative Value of Health Services book in Iran: A qualitative study Yousefvand, Mani Olyaeemanesh, Alireza Arab, Mohammad Jaafaripooyan, Ebrahim Med J Islam Repub Iran Original Article Background: Since approximately 45% of basic health insurance (BHI) resources are spent and distributed based on the Relative Value of Health Services (RVHS) book, therefore, any revision in this book will most probably affect the behavior of health insurance organizations. The present study was prospected to determine the effect of revising RVHS on behavior of BHI funds as the main providers of treatment resources. Methods: This is a qualitative study in which data were analyzed using content analysis method. Semi-structured interviews were used to gather the required data. 27 interviewees were chosen using purposive sampling method. Finally, MAXQDA software was used to analyze and code the data. Results: According to the results, revision of RVHS influenced the behavior of health insurance organizations. The most important changes in the behavior of health insurance funds involved the following: formation of a committee for cost management and handling the insurance documents, creating a uniform coding system for health services, redesigning the handling process of documents, increased share of insurance funds from health expenditures, with 300 new services added to basic package and revising the package according to the new version of the book. Furthermore, the rest of the changes included in the global payment method based on the new book, delay in paying claims, increased deductions based on the payment of expensive services on treatment protocols, holding periodic training courses, and teaching the new book as well as the procedures for handling the documents. Conclusion: With regard to the revision of RVHS and considering the incremental approach in revision of relative values, the increased claims of health services delivery centers and delay in payment of these claims were the most important changes in the behavior of health insurance funds. Health policy makers can overcome such issues and provide proper financial conditions through reduction of conversion factor and mobilization of resources. Such policies will open the space for best management of the behaviors affected by revision of relative values. Iran University of Medical Sciences 2018-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6387796/ /pubmed/30815405 http://dx.doi.org/10.14196/mjiri.32.110 Text en © 2018 Iran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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Arab, Mohammad
Jaafaripooyan, Ebrahim
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title_full_unstemmed The behavior of basic health insurance Organizations after the implementation of Relative Value of Health Services book in Iran: A qualitative study
title_short The behavior of basic health insurance Organizations after the implementation of Relative Value of Health Services book in Iran: A qualitative study
title_sort behavior of basic health insurance organizations after the implementation of relative value of health services book in iran: a qualitative study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6387796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30815405
http://dx.doi.org/10.14196/mjiri.32.110
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