Study on the philanthropic hospitals in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Portela, Margareth Crisóstomo
• Data de Publicação: 2000
• Outros Autores: Lima, Sheyla Maria Lemos, Vasconcellos, Miguel Murat de, Barbosa, Pedro Ribeiro, Ugá, Maria Alice Dominguez, Leis, Silvia Victoria Gerschman de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/6270
• topic: setor filantrópico no Brasil; legislação do setor filantrópico; Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS).

This paper presents a diagnosis of the Brazilian philanthropic health sector, based on the identification and analysis of current legislation and on the distribution of the network of philanthropic hospitals and its production within the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). It subsidizes public policies and specific sector programs, offering elements for the understanding of the conflicting context in which the new legislation has been established, and characterizing the role played by the philanthropic sector in providing healthcare through SUS. The sector¿s legislation and regulation documents were analyzedin order to identify the requirements and the flow of the process of obtaining the philanthropy certification as well as tax exemption. The consistency between data from the Brazilian Council for Social Assistance (CNAS) and from SUS were also checked. The geographic distribution of hospital resources was defined, and the production profile of these units were analyzed, taking into account the authorizations for inpatient care paid by SUS in the first quarter of 1999.