Substitutional effect of long-term care to hospital inpatient care?

Bei Lu, Hong Mi, Gaoyun Yan, Jonathan K.H. Lim and Guanggang Feng

China Economic Review, 2020, vol. 62, issue C

Abstract: In China, many of the top- and second-tier hospitals are overcrowded, this is partly due to the fact they are providing services which can provided by other medical facilities such as long-term care. The implementation of the Qingdao Long-term Care Medical Insurance (LTCMI) which began as a pilot in Qingdao in 2012 may alleviate the burden of overcrowding in these hospitals. In this pilot, the Qingdao government shifted patients who did not require hospital inpatient care from top- and second-tier hospitals to lower tier facilities, care homes and home care to i) reduce the expenditure of patients, ii) reduce the burden on the top- and second-tier hospitals and iii) improve delivery (from a time and geographic perspective) of long term care to those that need such attention.

Keywords: Long-term care; Medical care; Ageing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I13 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2020.101466

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