The Impact of COVID-19 on the Performance of Primary Health Care Service Providers in a Capitation Payment System: A Case Study from Poland
Authors:
- Piotr Korneta,
- Magdalena Anna Kludacz-Alessandri,
- Renata Walczak
Abstract
In Poland, as in many other countries, the use of capitation payment schemes in primary health care is popular. Despite this popularity, the subject literature discusses its role in decreasing the quality of primary medical services. This problem is particularly important during COVID-19, when medical entities provide telehealth services to patients. The objective of the study is to examine the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the performance of the primary health care providers in Poland under a capitation payment scheme. In this study the authors use data from interviews with personnel of medical entities and financial and administrative reports of primary health care providers in order to identify how this crisis situation impacts the performance of primary health care entities, under capitation payment system. The performance indicators include both the financial and quality measures. Selected to the case study primary health care service providers significantly improved their profitability due to considerable costs savings and reduction of services provided to patients in a time of COVID-19 pandemic. Capitation payment system proved to be inefficient, in the studied pandemic period, in terms of the services provided by primary health care service providers to patients and the funds paid to them, in exchange, by the government entities.
- Record ID
- WUT011f306b2c41483493605e1d0f6b5bc5
- Author
- Journal series
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, ISSN 1661-7827, e-ISSN 1660-4601
- Issue year
- 2021
- Vol
- 18
- No
- 4
- Keywords in English
- COVID-19; primary health care; performance; capitation payment
- ASJC Classification
- ;
- DOI
- DOI:10.3390/ijerph18041407 Opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/4/1407 Opening in a new tab
- Language
- (en) English
- License
- File
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- WUT011f306b2c41483493605e1d0f6b5bc5.pdf
- publication date: 15-04-2022
- The Impact of COVID-19 on the Performance of Primary Health Care Service Providers in a Capitation Payment System: A Case Study from Poland, File WUT011f306b2c41483493605e1d0f6b5bc5.pdf / 373 KB
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- Score (nominal)
- 140
- Score source
- journalList
- Score
- = 140.0, 15-04-2022, ArticleFromJournal
- Publication indicators
- = 0; = 7; : 2018 = 1.129; : 2019 (2 years) = 2.849 - 2019 (5 years) =3.127
- Citation count
- 9
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://repo.pw.edu.pl/info/article/WUT011f306b2c41483493605e1d0f6b5bc5/
- URN
urn:pw-repo:WUT011f306b2c41483493605e1d0f6b5bc5
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