Indicadores de gastos com serviços médicos no setor de saúde suplementar no Brasil: o caso Sabesprev

Mônica Viegas Andrade, Ana Carolina Maiab and Cristina Guimarães Rodrigues
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Mônica Viegas Andrade: Cedeplar-UFMG
Ana Carolina Maiab: Cedeplar-UFMG
Cristina Guimarães Rodrigues: Cedeplar-UFMG

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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present healthcare expenditures indicators of the private healthcare system in Brazil. We use administrative records of a healthcare insurance company that provide collective contracts to its employees. The indicators are classified according to the type of healthcare and age groups. Healthcare classification contemplates four types of services: doctor visits, inpatient care, exams and other types of healthcare services. We also discriminate healthcare indicators by survivorship status. The main results points out that: 1) the desegregation by survivorship status is very important to healthcare expenditures projections – the annual average healthcare expenditure to dead individuals is R$76.000,00 (seventy six thousand of reais) whereas this value is about R$2000,00 (two thousand of reais) for alive individuals: 2) on average women expend more than men along the lifecycle; 3) the expenditure ratio between the oldest and the youngest group is eight times.

Keywords: health insurance sector; expenditure indicators; health services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2010-09
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