Hospitalization costs and out-of-pocket (OOP) payment in lung cancer patients in Iran: Health Sector Evolution Plan (HSEP) has reduced OOP payments and improved financial protection.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

In Iran, Health Sector Evolution Plan, the most significant reform in the healthcare system in recent decades, has been launched since 2014 with the objective of achieving universal health coverage, decreasing out-of-pocket health expenditures and improving access to health services in hospitals and clinics affiliated to the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME). This study aimed to estimate the hospitalization costs of lung cancer and the impact of HSEP on hospitalization costs of lung cancer and patients' contribution in Iran between 2010 and 2017.

Methods

This was a prevalence-based cost of illness study with a bottom-up costing approach. The sample size included 1778 lung cancer patients hospitalized in the Imam Reza hospital in Tabriz

SUBMITTER: Jalilian H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11658521 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature