Sakarya University Training and Research Hospital Researchers Provide Details of New Studies and Findings in the Area of COVID-19 (Investigation of Health Insurance Costs of The Patients With Mild Covid-19 Symptoms in Emergency Room): Coronavirus – COVID-19

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2021 SEP 30 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx COVID-19 Daily -- New study results on coronavirus have been published. According to news originating from Sakarya, Turkey, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “This study aims to understand the burden of invoice costs of outpatients with mild Covid-19 symptoms on Social Security Institution (SSI); also, how it may have influenced the current economic situation. This research is a cross-sectional, retrospective, and descriptive study.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Sakarya University Training and Research Hospital: “The study universe includes the cases who applied to the emergency room (ER) with the symptoms of Covid-19. The sample group was the patients who applied to the Sakarya Training and Research Hospital (SEAH) pandemic ER between 01/09/2020 and 30/06/2021. During the study period, 130,975 patients were admitted to the pandemic ER. The mean emergency service bill of the cases was $10.6 (± 9), and the lowest was $2.2; the highest was $201.7. There was a weak but significant positive correlation between the patients’ age and invoice amount (spearman= 0.051, p=0.001). It was perceived that the emergency service bills of the inpatients (mean=21.9 $) were more than twice that of the outpatients (mean=10.3 $).”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “In pandemic ER, mild symptomatic young patients’ bills can be cheap. It was observed that emergency physicians did not apply too many tests and imaging methods in this patient group and were content only with Rt-PCR scanning. Also, ER bills can increase with age.”

For more information on this research see: Investigation of Health Insurance Costs of The Patients With Mild Covid-19 Symptoms in Emergency Room. Sanamed, 2021,16(2):155-159. (Sanamed - http://www.sanamed.rs). The publisher for Sanamed is Association of medical doctors Sanamed Novi Pazar.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.24125/sanamed.v16i2.517.

Our news journalists report that more information may be obtained by contacting Durmus Ensar, Emergency service department, Sakarya University Training and Research Hospital, Adapazari, Sakarya, Turkey. Additional authors for this research include Guneysu Fatih, Guner Gokhan Necip, Aslan Nuray, Yurumez Yusuf.