DOI: 10.7664/CHE20130708
Empirical Study on Medical Service Price Management and Medical Expenditure Control
Abstract： Objective: To analyze whether the changes of medical service prices could implement medical expenditure control. Methods: Trend analysis, relevance analysis, structure analysis and Wilcoxon signed-rank test are applied. Results: Price management of medical service can at least lead the medical expenditure control. Conclusion: (1)Cross-subsidization is widely employed in medical process; (2)though medicine expenditure and examination expenditure are closely connected with gross medical-expenditure, controlling medical-expenditure does not mean cutting medicine expenditure or examination expenditure; (3)there is no evidence to prove lower medicine expenditure would help to cut-down or alleviate patients’ burden.
Keywords：medical serviceprice managementmedical expenditure control
Publication Date：2013-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 32-34 )