Healthcare
Sanigest provides expert technical and administrative analysis for the development and implementation of national health systems
Relevant Areas
Healthcare financing plays a critical role in improving health services in developing countries. Health financing interventions can help to increase cost efficiency, optimize operations, and expand access to quality care. For more than 10 years, Sanigest has worked to design, enhance, implement, and evaluate a broad spectrum of healthcare financing reforms around the world. Sanigest develops solutions in both the public and private healthcare arenas — enabling countries to improve health sector efficiency, provider performance, service quality, and access for poor and disadvantaged populations. Sanigest provides technical assistance and training for a range of health finance issues that include:
- Resource mobilization and allocation
- Social and community-based health insurance
- Block grants
- Managed care reimbursement
Sanigest’s capabilities in this area include:
- National Health Accounts
- DRGs
- Payment mechanisms
- Performance-based contracting
- Management information systems
- Regulatory reforms
- Enhanced private sector financial management
- Loan preparedness
- Financial risk-sharing mechanisms
- Fee waiver, exemption, and voucher systems
Some projects in this area include:
Slovakia: Technical Assistance to the Provider Payment Mechanism
Kosovo: Strengthening the Capacity of the Health Financing
El Salvador: Financing options for the healthcare system
Assessment of sustained financing options for the El Salvador healthcare system
The project developed options to increase public health financing in El Salvador in a economically sustained way. As a result of the assignment, the group of policy makers in charge of formulating the social policy of the March 2009 elected government had an adequate basis to set up the program of enhancing health coverage.
