Relevancia de la estimación de costos para la gestión hospitalaria

MOSCOSO NEBEL SILVANA; CLARK MARÍA MARCELA

Documentos y Aportes en Administración Pública y Gestión Estatal

Magister en Administración Pública, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral

Lugar: Santa Fe; Año: 2010 vol. 10 p. 29 - 41

1851-3727

The Public Hospitals of Decentralized Management attend social security patients. The payments made by these institutions do not cover the costs incurred producing a cross-subsidy between the public sector and the social security. In the public hospital of Bahía Blanca, we analyzed the costs of three diseases and checked a cross-subsidy for $ 450.000 (U$S 113.900) in the period 2004-2008. The subsidy causes that the totality of the public resources is not supplied to the low-income population with major needs. The results of these studies are a valuable tool to agree on the payments to the social security sector and to improve the efficiency in the management of these hospitals.