Economic analysis for vagal nerve stimulator

Brain Battery which is called ?neural implant? in the medical literature is located under the skin with surgical intervention makes the nerves reactive again which lost its performance partically depending on illness or trauma under go to deformation.At the present time, Brain Batteries are applied for treatment of epilepsy, depression and Alzheimer?s diseases as ?vagus nerve stimulator (VNS)?, in respiratory insufficience used as diaphram pacemaker (frenik) nerve stimulator and in Parkinson disease and dystonia therapy used as deep brain stimulator.According to the health practice notification, VNS which is used in epilepsy in case of only practice on Research Hospitals and University Hospitals are supported by Social Security Insurance by committee report. Medical certificate contains the departmens of Pyschiatry, Neurology( child/ adult), Brain Surgery.Our aim is to as certain the cost of the epileptic patients nerve stimulators tucked and account agreed up on/ admitted for payment for refunding, the patients who is on treatment to the Social Security Insurance which is Turkey's refunding corporation.Social Security Insurance in Turkey includes almost all the citizens by doing social reforms from 2007. Due to the voucher system named as MEDULA which are registered all the patients to book down from 2008. Int his labour 1004 epilepsy patients who are registered in MEDULA in 2009 are analysed. At the same time all medical equipments placing on the market in Turkey have international validation number called as GSI and have rules which HIBBC defined with unique barcodes on products. This satisfy the product traceability which contains price and classified index standart data ser. The patients as certained who used the product march up with VNS from UBB/ which mat hesthe GMDN code comes from Medula system.In our research the real data obtained for all 65 patients who treated with UNS and 77 patients on treatment with drugs. The cost is considered as the patients who treated with UNS, for per patient is 25,686,70 Turkish Liras and the cost of patients on treatment with drugs for per year is 36,613 Turkish Liras.