Specific revenue of Iranian medical science universities within 2001-2010

The increasing costs and growth of prices in health sector, along with growing demand for health services and limited financial and manpower resources require an increase in productivity and cost control application in these areas. As the specific revenue of the Medical Universities is considered as the main source of revenue funding in the health section, this survey was conducted to present the revenue trendsfrom2001 to 2010 in Iranian University of Medical Sciences. This isadescriptivecross-sectional study in 2011 to evaluate the Universities revenue. The Research population consisted of all revenue centers in Iranian Medical Universities such that their revenue trend during the years 2001 to 2010 were extracted and analyzed applying Excel software. Results showed that universities revenue growth is low and irregular base. The highest increase in the amount of revenue was occurred in 2004 with 87.8 percent increase comparing the previous year, in contrast, the lowest growth rate was seen in 2009 with 12.5 percent decrease in compare with its last year. Most of this revenue was earned from treatment sectors and health, education and research sectors, respectively were situated next. The revenue of treatment sector was obtained from the bills sent to the insurance organizations.According to the research findings, paying more attention to treatment sector is considered as an effective policy for increasing revenue. Furthermore, planning for specific revenues increase in health, education and medical research sectors should be mentioned as Medical Universities priority.