Our service production volume exceeded the budget by 5.4% and grew by 1.8% compared to the previous year.

The increase is explained by the increase in electronic services by nearly 700% compared to 2019. The volume change weighted by the invoicing share of the Joint Authority excluding electronic services was below the budget by 5.7% and decreased by 7.3% on the previous year.

Medical service production FS 2019 BUDGET 2020 FS 2020 Deviation %, FS 2020 / Budget 2020 Change % FS 2020 / FS 2019
Service production
– Change in volume weighted according to billing share 5.4% 1.8%
– Psychiatry treatment days 1) 160,184 158,758 -0.9%
– NordDRG products 774,719 758,211 710,708 -6.3% -8.3%
DRG groups 166,371 162,950 153,020 -6.1% -8.0%
DRG-O Groups 167,766 163,383 158,385 -3.1% -5.6%
Endoscopy 32,731 31,094 28,777 -7.5% -12.1%
Minor procedures 109,316 109,719 86,648 -21.0% -20.7%
900 group 297,541 290,245 282,547 -2.7% -5.0%
Cost-based period 994 819 1,331 62.5% 33.9%
– Outpatient products, somatic care 1,484,126 1,384,602 -6.7%
– Outpatient products, psychiatric care 534,398 532,133 -0.4%
– Health center emergency clinic visits 261,302 259,697 206,425 -20.5% -21.0%
– Billable transfer delay inpatient days 1,331 990 -25.6%
– Visit products 2,935,555 2,818,138 -4.0%
Emergency clinic visits (including DRG billing) 298,887 261,649 -12.5%
First visits 264,060 212,257 -19.6%
– Treatment day interim performances 861,168 762,399 -11.5%
– Surgical operations 91,971 78,532 -14.6%
Ambulatory surgery procedures 36,988 29,285 -20.8%
– Births as at December 31, 2020 15,549 15,753 1.3%
1) Excluding residential care days

Outpatient care accounted for 46.2% of specialist medical care at HUS, slightly more than in the previous year (2019: 45.6%).

Outpatient care billing accounted for 47.2% of all of HUS’s own service production, i.e. specialist medical care and basic health care.

Analyzed in terms of product numbers, outpatient care accounted for 87.8% of specialist medical care at HUS in 2020 and 88.4% of service production as a whole.

The number of treatment day products delivered was 2.4% lower than in the previous year. The number of psychiatry treatment days decreased by 0.9%.In 2020, we performed 408 transplantations. The coronavirus pandemic had little impact on their number.

Despite the extraordinary circumstances, we were able to perform emergency surgical procedures at an almost normal level. Also, we were able to greatly increase the number of elective surgeries performed between June and December.