DOI: 10.7664/CHE20140205
Evaluation Study on the Effect of Participating Farmers’ Outpatient Medical Expense after the implementation of Capitation Reform
Abstract：Objective: To evaluate the effect of controlling the outpatient medical expenses for participating farmers after the implementation of capitation reform under new rural cooperative medical system (NCMS). Methods: It collected the NCMS operational data before and after the implementation of capitation reform. The data included 11.6 million outpatient records about treatment cost , the amount of compensation and other data from 2011 to 2012. Results: After the capitation reform, the excessive growth of medical costs obtained a certain degree control, and the NCMS fund was more secure. Conclusion: Capitation reform only made an initial mechanism of self-restraint for community health service centers. Further studies are needed on how to motivate the staff in secondary and tertiary hospitals to control medical expense actively.
Keywords：new rural cooperative medical systempayment reformcapitationoutpatient medical expense
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 21-24 )