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Learn how HE Eye Care System tackles decreasing patient volumes and health insurance limitations through innovative models like telemedicine and cooperation with county hospitals. Their success in providing affordable and high-quality eye care services sets a new standard in China.
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Challenges and pitfalls to maintain revenue generating services in He Eye Care System Prof. Wei He, MD, PhD, MBA Founder and Chairman of He Eye Care System WPR Co-Chair IAPB Vice President of Chinese Ophthalmologist Association CPPCC Member (Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference)
Chanllenge: Patient volume is increasing slower • Chinese GDP growth declines • Local financial revenue drop • The capacity of Health Insurance decreased.
Chinese Medical Reform • Hospitals in counties and towns are enhanced by the governments -- Most of patients will first visit county hospitals; -- Renewed equipments and facilities in county and town hospitals to cover 80% diseases
Challenge: Chinese Health Insurance policy • 75% of medical costs reimbursement in basic-level hospitals. • 45% in He Eye Hospitals.
Solution 1: HECS Model Advantage • HECS provides affordable, acceptable, continuous and high-quality eye service reduce the burden of patients and governments patient volume keep growing revenue increase. • Pricing advantage.For Example : cataract surgery (IOL) in 2011
HECS’s model is recognized and duplicated in China. Eye Care System in Rural Area Eye Care System in Urban Area Traiing,Referal, Tele-medicine Traiing,Referal, Tele-medicine COE Regional Eye Hospitals City hospitals Cataract &RE Centers County hospitals Tele-ophthalmic Clinics
Solution 2: Cooperate with county levelhospitals • Telemedicine: 44 in Liaoning, 70% of the eye care market Benefits from: • Share patients in cooperated hospitals, increase HEH revenue; • Reduce the time and cost of transforing patients and seeing a doctor, satisfy the patients ; • Refer the patients to He Eye Hospitals, increase HEH revenue.
Training grassroots doctors----instead of outreach teams from HECS Benefits from: • shorten the time and reduce medical cost of out reach activities by He eye hospital; • Increased the volume of referred patients to He Eye Hospital; • 30,000 grass-roots doctors in Liaoning, 30,000 cataract surgery /year.
TheHECS model solve eye problems in China and makes eye care affordable to all. HECS will not only gain economy benefits, but win a good reputation with enthusiastic at public welfare as well. • MOH set up the first National Training Base for the Prevention and Treatment of Blindness in China in June 2012. • The HECS model is duplicating in Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province.
In 2012, Prof. Wei He reported to the State President, HU Jintao on He Eye Care System model
