Dental health economics and diagnosis related groups/casemix in Indonesian dentistry

• Main Author: Ronnie Rivany (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universitas Airlangga, 2009-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary

<span style="font-family: Tribune-Bold; font-size: 10pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><strong>Background: </strong><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>Dental Health Economics is a branch of transdiciplinary science that refers to the Economic and Public Health </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>science. On the other hand, in other developed countries, Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG's) /Casemix has been used as a basic in </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>creating the same perception between providers, patients and insurance companies in many aspects such as health planning, healthcare </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>financing and quality assurance. </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Bold; font-size: 10pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><strong>Purpose: </strong><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>The objective of this review is to propose a new paradigm of economics to be applied in </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>Indonesian Dentistry. </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Bold; font-size: 10pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><strong>Reviews: </strong><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>The Dental Health Economics should be considered as an important aspect in Indonesian Dentistry, </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>which is used to determine the dental treatment fee based on unit cost, cost containment, and cost recovery rate analysis. Referring to </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Group, health care industry in Indonesia has starting to try a more structured way in grouping </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>disease pattern in order to come up with more precise health care services to their patients. The on going development of Indonesian </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>DRG's is meant to confirm the disease pattern and partition. </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Bold; font-size: 10pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><strong>Conclusion: </strong><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>The development of Indonesian DRG's concept, especially </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>the Dental & Oral Disorders, needs a new paradigm, so the practitioners and academics could group and calculate the unit cost from </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>each dental treatment according to the Indonesian DRG version (INA-DRG's).</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>

Item Description

1978-3728
2442-9740
10.20473/j.djmkg.v42.i4.p210-215