Evaluation of the Effects of Global Budget Policy on Hospitalization Expenditure by Matching Difference-in-difference Model
Abstract：Objective To identify the policy impact of global budget after 4 years' implementation on hospitalization expenditure.Method Based on Hospital Information System (HIS),records between Aug.2008 and Jul.2016 were collected.Cutoff date was Aug.2012,and DID method was applied to evaluate the net effect between the policy group and the matched group.Result The implementation of global budget has brought with a net reduction of ￥4 414.79 for the average hospitalization expense and a net increase of ￥199.79 for the average drug cost.Conclusion The global budget policy leads to the cost control and patient burden relief to a certain extent.But the medicine is a difficult field of management,thus the consideration of the distinctness of oncological treatment is essential to complex payment reform practice.
Keywords：global budgetaverage hospitalization expenseoncologydifference-in-difference method
Publication Date：2018-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 53-55 )