The Result of New Normal Medical Service to Unit Cost of Tumbon Health Promoting Hospital During the incidence of coronavirus disease 2019 in Chiangrai Province
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BACKGROUND: The Ministry of Public Health has a new normal medical service policy at Tambon Health Promoting Hospitals in Chiangrai Province. Therefore, it has begun to adjust this service model in the fiscal year 2020, there may be a change in the unit cost of services.
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to compare the unit cost of Tumbon health promoting hospital between before new normal medical service and during new normal medical service.
METHODS: This evaluation study cost analysis of 100 sub-district health-promoting hospitals by stratified random sampling was conducted primary and secondary data in the fiscal year 2019-2020, descriptive statistics analysis, and the Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Signed-Ranks Test.
RESULTS: The median of unit cost, operating cost, direct cost, and total direct cost between before and during new normal medical service did not increase significantly, however, found that indirect cost increased significantly (p=0.009).
CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION: Overall, the unit cost of service has not changed. Only indirect costs were found to change significantly. Additional budgets should be provided in the indirect cost to support the service, at least not less than 2.2 hundred thousand Baht/place.
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