Organization of the Efficient System of Corporate Healthcare Management in Russian Industrial Companies

Организация эффективной системы управления корпоративной медициной в российских промышленных компаниях

Kalendzhyan, Sergey O. (Календжян, Сергей) (), Salnikov, Andrey A. (Сальников, Андрей) () and Gumilevskaya, Olga V. (Гумилевская, Ольга) ()
Additional contact information
Kalendzhyan, Sergey O. (Календжян, Сергей): Higher School of Business Administration of The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Salnikov, Andrey A. (Сальников, Андрей): Health Protection Department, MC «Metalloinvest»

Ekonomicheskaya Politika / Economic Policy, 2016, vol. 5, 118-139

Abstract: The article is devoted to the problems of the corporate healthcare organization in major Russian companies. The role of corporate social responsibility, particularly, in the healthcare sector has increased considerably in the recent years. In this regard, the issues of developing corporate healthcare management system, which combines the high quality of service and cost-effectiveness, gained particular importance. Analysis of the international experience revealed the absence of such notion as “in-house corporate healthcare”. At the same time, many industrial companies have historically developed their own system of medical institutions in Russia. In order to improve corporate health management, company executives need to make a decision — either to save their own healthcare system or to outsource it, which is the common practice in Western countries. The paper analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of using the corporate medicine outsourcing in the Russian context. The authors conclude that, given the current situation in the outsourcing market in Russia, risks of transmission of the corporate healthcare management to third parties exceed the potential benefits. Later in the article the comparative analysis of different forms of healthcare management systems is carried out within the “insourcing” model, in particular, the centralized and decentralized management. The authors examine the best practices of the corporate healthcare organization in such companies as Russian Railways, Gazprom, MMK, NLMK, Alrosa. The findings, presented in the article are the basis for the transformation of healthcare management systems in large industrial companies. An example of this transformation is a comprehensive reform of the corporate healthcare in the “Metalloinvest” company.

Keywords: corporate healthcare; medical organizations management system; outsourcing of medical services; medical management company (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 I13 I15 M14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://repec.ranepa.ru/rnp/ecopol/ep1656.pdf

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:rnp:ecopol:ep1656

Access Statistics for this article

Ekonomicheskaya Politika / Economic Policy is currently edited by Vladimir Mau

More articles in Ekonomicheskaya Politika / Economic Policy from Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by RANEPA maintainer ().