COVID-19提供者救济基金支付是适当准的,并没有提高特定医院的利
Anuj Gangopadhyaya1, Fredric Blavin2, Teresa A Coughlin3
1Anuj Gangopadhyaya (anujgango@gmail.com), Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Health affairs (Project Hope)
|August 7, 2023
概括
提供者救济基金 (PRF) 在COVID-19大流行期间为医院提供了至关重要的财政支持. 支付主要是抵消损失,特别是对于财务上脆弱的机构,而不是提高整体利能力.
科学领域:
- 卫生经济学 卫生经济学
- 医疗保健融资 医疗保健融资
- 公共卫生政策 公共卫生政策
背景情况:
- 由于COVID-19大流行,医疗保健提供者遭受了巨大的财务压力.
- 国会设立了提供者救济基金 (PRF),资金为1780亿美元,以减轻这些财务影响.
- 了解PRF对医院财务业绩的影响对于评估政策有效性至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 检查提供者救济基金 (PRF) 支持强度对美国医院运营利的影响.
- 评估PRF支付是否抵消了与流行病相关的财务损失.
- 分析PRF对医院的差异性影响,基于其疫情前的财务脆弱性.
主要方法:
- 使用差异差异方法.
- 从2018年1月至2022年6月的美国医院全国代表样本分析了每月的数据.
- 根据PRF支持强度 (低,中,高) 和大流行前的财务脆弱性 (国家中位数运营利率以上/以下) 分类医院.
主要成果:
- PRF分配的目标是适当的,有助于抵消财务损失,而不是创造额外的利能力.
- 接受中等和高PRF支持的医院与支持较低的医院相比,没有显示明显更高的运营利.
- 在疫情爆发之前,PRF的影响在经济上脆弱的医院中最为明显.
结论:
- 提供者救济基金在COVID-19危机期间有效支持医院,特别是那些事先存在的财务脆弱性.
- 在维持基本医疗保健提供者的财务可行性方面,PRF支付起到了至关重要的作用.
- 调查结果表明,PRF是一个有针对性的干预措施,旨在解决大流行引起的医疗保健部门财务困境.
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