SPPI for Human health activities session OECD PPPS programme on hospital services, lessons learnt Anne-Sophie Fraisse, OECD Statistics Directorate 29 th Voorburg Group meeting Central Statistics of Ireland, Dublin
OECD Eurostat PPPS program on hospital services - Background Project started in 2007 to develop outputbased hospital PPPs aiming to improve PPPs for health as a whole Five pilot studies carried out to assess the feasibility of the methodology Pilot studies results published in 2010 Implementation in December 2013 for 2011 PPPs calculation within the framework of the Eurostat-OECD PPP programme 2
United States Netherlands ¹ France Germany Denmark Canada Switzerland Austria Belgium ² New Zealand Portugal Sweden United Kingdom Iceland Greece Norway OECD Ireland Italy Spain Slovenia Finland Slovak Rep. Brazil Australia Japan South Africa Chile Czech Rep. Israel Luxembourg ³ Hungary Poland Estonia Korea Mexico Turkey Russian Fed. China India Indonesia 2.4 12.0 11.8 11.6 11.5 11.4 11.4 11.0 10.9 10.3 10.1 10.0 9.8 9.7 9.6 9.6 9.6 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.3 9.2 9.1 9.0 8.7 8.5 8.5 8.4 8.2 7.9 7.8 7.4 7.4 7.0 6.9 6.4 6.1 5.4 4.6 4.2 17.4 18 16 Why a need to develop PPPS for hospital services? (1/2) Total health expenditure as a share of GDP, 2010 % of GDP Public Private 20 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 3
Why a need to develop PPPS for hospital services? (2/2) In the past, volume of outputs of nonmarket services were estimated by volume of inputs Implies zero productivity growth OECD, Eurostat and others have worked towards producing outputbased measures of the volume of these services and growth overtime 4
PPPs for hospital services: Can lessons be learned? In the perspective of the construction of temporal price indices for hospital services, what lessons could be learnt from the PPPs program on hospital services? 5
PPPs for hospital services: from input to output based PPPs Production of health services: Uses input approach Only wages are directly measured, all other input prices are approximated through reference PPPs In concept, input approach cannot reflect productivity differences between countries In practice, wages and salaries are difficult to measure and there is an unknown bias from using reference PPPs for other cost items Move to output measure of hospital services As in most of the countries, absence of market prices, use of quasi prices 6
Output-based PPPs for hospital services: Methodological framework (1/2) Calculate PPPs poses difficulties for 1. Identifying products that are comparable across countries 2. Representativeness of products 3. No meaningful market price for comparison Requires implementation of an output survey of hospital services: Identify representative and comparable hospital products (case-types) using diagnoses and procedures codes 7
Output-based PPPs for hospital services: Methodological framework (2/2) Two types of cases-types: medical and chirurgical Use the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) to identify cases-types Cases-types included were common procedures or diagnoses. They account for a significant percentage of hospital expenditures International comparability of product classification systems is limited for Diagnosis Related Group (DRG)-type system Use quasi-prices: costs per unit of case-type Unobserved prices that emulate a competitive situation where prices equal average costs per products 8
Output-based PPPs for hospital services: Sample of service products Medical cases: 7, no operating room procedures are performed Surgical cases: 21 in-hospital, plus 4 types using out-patient procedures Only standard hospitalisation cases: omit very long stays or transfers 9
Output-based PPPs for hospital services: Products definition (1/2) M01 Acute myocardial infarction M02 Angina pectoris M03 Cholelitiasis M04 Heart failure M05 Malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung M06 Normal delivery M07 Pneumonia Separate items for inpatient and outpatient S01 Appendectomy S02 Caesarean section S03 Cholecystectomy S04 Colorectal resection S05 Coronary artery bypass graft S06 Discectomy S07 Endarterectomy: vessels of head and neck S08 Hip replacement: total and partial S09 Hysterectomy: abdominal and vaginal S10 Knee replacement S11 Mastectomy S12 Open prostatectomy S13 Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) S14 Peripheral vascular bypass S15 Repair of inguinal hernia S16 Thyroidectomy S17 Transurethral resection of prostate (TURP) S18 Arthroscopic excision of meniscus of knee S19 Cataract surgery S20 Ligation and stripping of varicose veins - lower limb S21 Tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy 10
Output-based PPPs for hospital services: Products definition (1/2) S03 Cholecystectomy Case type description ICD-9-CM codes Cholecystectomy is here defined as the surgical removal of the gallbladder or of a part of the gallbladder. These interventions can be employed for treating a number of diseases including symptomatic gallstones or neoplasms. It is the most common method for treating symptomatic gallstones. Surgical options include the standard procedure, called laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and an older more invasive procedure, called open cholecystectomy. 51.21, Other partial cholecystectomy 51.22, Cholecystectomy 51.23, Laparoscopic cholecystectomy 51.24, Laparoscopic partial cholecystectomy Rules Inclusion Exclusion Principal diagnosis of cholelitiasis (K80), cholecystitis (K81) or other diseases of gallbladder (K82) Partial colecistectomy 11
Output-based PPPs for hospital services: Quasi-prices (1/3) Provide, in theory, an indication of the purchasers willingness-to-pay (usually government or insurer). and the providers willingness-to-accept these value as the price for hospital services Can be negotiated price or administrated price but need to include direct costs, capital costs and overhead 12
Output-based PPPs for hospital services: Quasi-prices (2/3) Negotiated or administered rates could be labelled as quasi-prices to signal that: they are not necessarily the result of market transactions they are not prices that apply to transactions between producers and consumers of health services they are not observed As a general principle, the full set of costs should be reflected in the quasi-price 13
Output-based PPPs for hospital services: Quasi-prices (2/3) Negotiated quasi-prices : Established through independent negotiations between purchasers/third party payers and providers Are not necessarily directly tied to the cost of care Could include profit margins (or losses if some services are cross-subsidised by others). Administered quasi-prices Reflective of average costs per product Important that the scope of costs reflected in the administered price is similar across countries 14
Output-based PPPs for hospital services: Data collected Survey conducted using a standardized questionnaire to collect quasi prices for selected case-types Quasi-prices extracted from existing database: health administrations and national insurance Number of cases were also collected and used to calculate values and share weights Derived Price level indices (PLIs) ratio of PPPs to exchange rate. 15
CH LU AUS NO IE AT DK SE NL CAN BE JPN FR UK ES FI USA IT ISR IS OECD PT EU28 CY NZL SI EL CHL KOR CZ MT HR MEX EE TR BA RUS PL RS LV ME SK LT HU AL MK RO BG Output-based PPPs for hospital services: Some results for 2011 (1/3) Price levels for hospital services, 2011, EU28=100 250 200 150 100 50 0 16
Comparison of per capita volume indices for health using PPP for GDP and PPP for health, 2011, EU28=100 180 Using Specific PPP for Health Using PPP for GDP 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 DE BE NO CH FR FI DK IS SE UK NL EU LU IE IT MT AT EL CZ HU SK SI LT ES PL RO PT HR CY EE BG LV RS TR ME MK BA AL 17
Output-based PPPs for hospital services: Some results for 2011 (2/3) In 2013, the methods used for calculate Output-based PPPs for hospital services have been officially implemented Data collected through the annual hospital PPPs survey for European countries and hopefully soon on an annual basis for OECD non-european countries Detailed results are available in Koechlin et al. (2014) 18
Output-based PPPs for hospital services: What lessons could be learnt? An opportunity to develop temporal price indices for hospital services and health? Measure output prices Product approach Quasi-prices Regular collection: low cost method as use of existing data (initialisation is more expensive) Further steps to improve methodology Improve comparability with the developments of the DRGs system Treatment of residential care Better take into account quality differences Regular collection 19
Output-based PPPs for hospital services: more detailed information Francette Koechlin, Paul Konijn, Luca Lorenzoni and Paul Schreyer (2014), Comparing hospital and health prices and volumes internationally: results of a Eurostat/OECD project, OECD Health working papers, N 75 available at: http://www.oecd.org/officialdocuments/publicdisplaydocu mentpdf/?cote=delsa/hea/wd/hwp(2014)8&doclangu age=en Francette.Koechlin@oecd.org Luca.Lorenzoni@oecd.org 20
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