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Comparing Hospital and Health Prices and Volumes Internationally: Results of a Eurostat/OECD Project

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  • Francette Koechlin

    (OECD)

  • Paul Konijn

    (Eurostat)

  • Luca Lorenzoni

    (OECD)

  • Paul Schreyer

    (OECD)

Abstract

Health services account for a large and increasing share of production and expenditure in OECD and Eurostat countries but there are also noticeable differences between countries in expenditure per capita. Whether such differences are due to more services being consumed or whether they reflect differences in the price of services is a question of significant policy relevance. Yet, cross-country comparisons of health services have typically not disentangled these effects. This paper presents the results of a joint effort between OECD and Eurostat in developing price comparisons for health goods and services. The main novel feature is the collection of comparable and output-based prices for hospital services that can then be applied to matching national accounts expenditure data so as to derive consistent price and volume comparisons of health products. The data is novel in that it reflects “quasi prices” (negotiated or administrative prices or tariffs) of the output of hospital services, instead of prices of inputs such as wages of medical personnel. The new methodology moves away from the traditional input perspective, thereby relaxing the assumption that hospital productivity is the same across countries... Les services de santé représentent une part importante et croissante de la production et des dépenses dans les pays de l'OCDE et d'Eurostat, mais des différences notables apparaissent au regard des dépenses par habitant. Savoir si de telles différences sont dues aux quantités des services consommés ou si celles-ci reflètent des différences dans le prix des services est une question fondamentale pour mener des politiques pertinentes. Jusqu’à présent, les comparaisons internationales des services de santé n’ont pourtant pas permis de distinguer ces effets. Ce document présente les résultats d'un effort conjoint entre l'OCDE et Eurostat dans le développement de comparaisons de prix pour les biens et services de santé. Le caractère novateur de cette étude est la collecte de prix comparables pour les services hospitaliers, prix qui peuvent être ensuite appliqués aux dépenses de comptabilité nationale correspondantes pour obtenir des comparaisons cohérentes de prix et de volume des produits de santé. Les données sont inédites car elles reflètent les "quasi-prix" (prix négociés ou réglementés ou tarifs) de la production des services hospitaliers, au lieu des prix des facteurs de production (« input ») tels que les salaires du personnel médical. La nouvelle méthodologie s'écarte de la perspective traditionnelle basée sur les facteurs de production, s’éloignant ainsi de l'hypothèse que la productivité des hôpitaux est la même dans tous les pays...

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  • Francette Koechlin & Paul Konijn & Luca Lorenzoni & Paul Schreyer, 2014. "Comparing Hospital and Health Prices and Volumes Internationally: Results of a Eurostat/OECD Project," OECD Health Working Papers 75, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:elsaad:75-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5jxznwrj32mp-en
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    1. Tor Iversen & Eline Aas & Gunnar Rosenqvist & Unto Häkkinen & on behalf of the EuroHOPE study group, 2015. "Comparative Analysis of Treatment Costs in EUROHOPE," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 24(S2), pages 5-22, December.
    2. Stefania Di Gangi & Christophe Bagnoud & Giuseppe Pichierri & Thomas Rosemann & Andreas Plate, 2022. "Characteristics and health care costs in patients with a diagnostic imaging for low back pain in Switzerland," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 23(5), pages 823-835, July.
    3. Wren, Maev-Ann & FitzPatrick, Aoife, 2020. "How does Irish healthcare expenditure compare internationally?," Research Series, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), number RS114, June.

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    • C43 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Index Numbers and Aggregation
    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
    • M41 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Accounting

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