Catastrophic Payment and Health Protection in Rural China - Impact of New Cooperative Medical Scheme in Shandong Province

Sukhan Jackson, Xiaoyun Sun1, Gordon Carmichael and Adrian C. Sleigh1.
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Adrian C. Sleigh1.: School of Economics, The University of Queensland, https://economics.uq.edu.au/

No 344, Discussion Papers Series from University of Queensland, School of Economics

Abstract: In 2005, from a stratified cluster sample of 3,101 rural households we identified 375 households that might be at risk of catastrophic payments, by searching through NCMS claims and interviewing key informants. We interviewed these 375 households and confirmed that 239 had had catastrophic payments (= 40% of the household�s capacity to pay) during 2004. A validity test of our screening method found another 8 cases among immediate neighbours of these 375 households; by extrapolation, we obtained an adjusted total of 289 catastrophic households in the sample of 3,101. We measured the impact of the NCMS on hardship alleviation by counterfactual analysis, comparing catastrophic payments before and after NCMS reimbursements.

Date: 2007
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