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0130/2016 - Developments in use and expenditures of a health provider.
Evolução na utilização e nos gastos de uma operadora de saúde.

Author:

• André Luís de Castro Moura Duarte - Duarte, André Luís de Castro Moura - Insper Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa, Business School - <andrelcmd@insper.edu.br> +

Co-author(s):

• Felippe de Medeiros Oliveira - Oliveira, Felippe de Medeiros - Insper Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa, Administração - <felippemo@al.insper.edu.br>
• Anderson Andrade Santos - Santos, Anderson Andrade - Insper Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa, Administração - <andersons@sc.usp.br>
• Bento F. Cardoso dos Santos - Santos, Bento F. Cardoso dos - Insper, Business School - <bentofcs1@insper.edu.br>

Thematic Area:

Saúde e Gênero

Abstract:

Brazil’s aging population and the rising number of people exposed to the country’s supplementary healthcare system have increased the concern of public and private managers with the growth of healthcare costs. In this paper, we analyzed the costs by gender, by the type of medical expenses and by the age groups of a key Brazilian self-managed healthcare entity in the period 2007-2013. This healthcare operator is of great interest because besides portraying a single condition of revenue growth restricted to the existing contributors, it also replicates the demographic profile expected for Brazil in 2050, when about one-third of its population will be over sixty years old. The analyses confirm the current literature by showing an increase in healthcare plan usage by the elderly; the difference between admission rates by gender in older populations, the increase in average length of stay in hospitals; and changes in medical costs compared with inflation, especially for hospitalization materials and medicines. Overall, we hope that this study assists scholars and others interested in comparisons of medical expenses trends, especially by age and sex, and that it encourages further collaboration on the sustainability of health insurance companies in Brazil.

Keywords:

Medical costs evolutionAging PopulationGenderSelf-managed EntityHealth Services

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Duarte, André Luís de Castro Moura, Oliveira, Felippe de Medeiros, Santos, Anderson Andrade, Santos, Bento F. Cardoso dos. Developments in use and expenditures of a health provider.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2016/Mar). [Citado em 22/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/developments-in-use-and-expenditures-of-a-health-provider/15554?id=15554&id=15554



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