DOI: 10.7664/CHE20130417
Simulation Method of Patients’ Treatment Expenditure Forecast under New Medical Reform Program in Beijing
Abstract：Objective: To study the impact of Beijing service-drug separation pilot program on doctors, patients and hospitals to forecast patients’ treatment expenditure. Methods: Using complex adaptive system simulation method to build a simulation model of treatment expenditure of patients with single and long-term. Results: Patients’treatment expenditure is affected by their own economic capacity, physician behavior, their own behavior and hospitals’ treatment amount. Conclusion: Under new medical reform program, simulation method provides a convenient tool to forecast patients’ treatment expenditure.
Keywords：service-drug separationpatients’ treatment expenditurehealth economics simulationcomplex adaptive system
Publication Date：2013-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)