Kidney Failure Service Costs BPJS Health Rp6.5 Trillion

Liputan6.com, Jakarta Guaranteed financing for cases of kidney failure patients BPJS Health cost up to tens of trillions of rupiah. Kidney failure is one of the catastrophic diseases or high-cost diseases, which is covered by the National Health Insurance-Healthy Indonesia Card (JKN-KIS) Program.

BPJS Kesehatan Managing Director Ali Ghufron Mukti revealed, health services for patients kidney failure during the COVID-19 pandemic continues to increase. Because, they still have to go to the hospital to get services, such as dialysis.

“During the pandemic there was a decrease in overall health care visits, but specifically for catastrophic cases, such as kidney failure, it remained high,” said Ghufron in an official statement received. Health Liputan6.com written Thursday, March 10, 2022.

“Yes, because participants still regularly visit the hospital to get services. In 2021 alone, there will be 6.3 million services (cases) of kidney failure at a cost of around Rp. 6.5 trillion.”

The description of the financing of catastrophic disease cases occupies the largest proportion of the total cost of health services as in previous years. Catastrophic disease is a disease that requires long and high-cost medical treatment.

“Catastrophic costs reach 21-25 percent of the cost of referral health services in 2018 to 2021,” continued Ghufron.

“As for the diagnosis of kidney failure, it is included in the four largest financing catastrophicwhich is 10 percent of the total catastrophic costs by 2021.”

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