This study examines national expenditure on medicines and medical consumables to strengthen the pharmaceutical component of Indonesia's National Health Accounts.
The analysis covers public and non-public expenditure, spending by healthcare provider and service function, and costs at hospitals, community health centres, pharmacies, clinics and medical practices. It also examines expenditure associated with curative services and health programmes and develops disaggregated estimates using available cost and service data.
Description of Assignment:
Information regarding health financing in Indonesia has been systematically summarized in National Health Accounts (NHA) managed by the Ministry of Health’s Health Financing and Insurance Center (PPJK KemenKes) and produced annually. NHA in Indonesia, as in other countries, continues to develop appropriately. living document, which continues to require improvements in methods and information sources. One crucial component of the National Health Insurance (NHA) that still needs to be refined is drug spending. Information on drug spending has become crucial with the implementation of the BPJS Law and the social health insurance-based financing scheme. One benefit is monitoring drug spending by type and quantity, as well as the growth in drug costs. Therefore, studies are needed that uncover drug spending and costs using various data sources.
This study aims to obtain an overview of national spending on drugs and medical consumables and its disaggregation according to health service providers and health service functions.
The specific objectives of implementing this study are:
Obtained macro analysis results of national drug spending that reflect public and non-public drug data
Obtaining an overview of the costs of drugs and medical consumables in health services,
hospital
community health center
pharmacy
clinic/doctor’s practice
Obtaining an overview of the costs of drugs and medical supplies for curative health services and programs
The results of the drug expenditure disaggregation analysis were obtained based on a study of costs in health services.
