Implantação da gestão de custo na rede hospitalar da secretaria de saúde pública do Rio Grande do Norte

Abstract

This work describes the experience of implementing Cost Management and the ApuraSUS cost calculation system in hospital units of the Public Health Secretariat of Rio Grande do Norte (SESAP). ApuraSUS is an information system, developed by the Ministry of Health, and made available via the web with access to registration for participants in the National Cost Management Program (PNGC). In 2023, SESAP joined the PNGC, with this membership it was already defined that we would implement cost management in the twenty-one hospitals in the SESAP Network and in the six Blood Centers. The methodology used in this report is qualitative and descriptive in nature. Experience has shown that the implementation of cost management is not something trivial, its implementation involves, among other things, organization of work processes, a good information and communication technology structure, political will and a favorable organizational culture, it has also shown us that mainly the change in the work process was one of the gains of this implementation.