Communiqué on healthcare practices as a type of public regulation and its impact on the financial structure of university hospitals

A public regulation made in the field of healthcare, the Communiqué on Healthcare Practices (CHP) is a price regulation that has affected the healthcare market directly. In this thesis, the regulations are regarded as a public intervention with negative impacts on the market supply and demand, as well as its price structure. This study attempts to analyze the impact of the Communiqué on Healthcare Practices, a healthcare regulation tool that directly governs financial and administrative aspects of the healthcare market in our country, on the financial structure of university hospitals. In this respect, we selected three departments (Cardiology, Urology, and General Surgery) within the Akdeniz University Hospital and monitored the variations in CHP unit prices for each departmental procedure between 2007 and 2015. In addition, this analysis also included the incomes of each department and total number of patients visiting these departments. Based on the study findings, we concluded that the growth in the revenue of the hospital studied was not at the desired level, because while the number of hospital procedures increased over the years (from 2007 baseline), the CHP unit prices for procedures remained unincreased. Keywords: Regulation, Healthcare Regulation, Communiqué On Healthcare Practices, University Hospitals, Financial Structure.