Changes in inpatients' distribution and benefits under institution level–based quota payment for specific diseases in rural China: An interrupted time‐series analysis

Hao‐Miao Li, Ying‐Chun Chen, Hong‐Xia Gao, Yan Zhang, Dai Su, Jing‐Jing Chang, Di Jiang, Xiao‐Mei Hu and Shi‐Han Lei

International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2019, vol. 34, issue 1, e436-e446

Abstract: The distribution of patients is increasingly disordered in China, which leads to the waste of medical resources, increase in inpatients' economic burden, and decrease in benefits from health insurance. Institution level–based quota payment for specific diseases represents a typical payment‐system reform mode in rural China that rationalizes the distribution of rural inpatients. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of this mode by estimating rural inpatients' distribution among hospitals at different levels, per capita cost of hospitalization, and actual compensation ratio and then to provide suggestions to advance this mode. Interrupted time‐series analysis was applied to evaluate the effect of the reform mode in the study, and Weiyuan County, Gansu Province, was selected as our sample. Institution level–based quota payment for specific diseases in Weiyuan County has rationalized the distribution of rural inpatients and improved their benefit levels. Further research should be conducted to evaluate the appropriateness of medical services, the health outcomes of rural inpatients, and the sustainability and replicability of the policy.

Date: 2019
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