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Absence of appropriate hospitalization cost control for patients with medical insurance: a comparative analysis study
Xilong Pan1, Hassan H Dib, Minmin Zhu
1Peking University Health Science Center, Health Policy and Management Department, School of Public Health, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Objective:
Expose the weak loops in the Chinese medical insurance coverage and uncover hospitals' role of over-pricing hospitalized insured patients compared with those non-insured.
Methods:
A multi-linear regression method was used to analyze hospitalization expense for insured and uninsured patients with uncomplicated acute appendicitis, cholecystitis, benign uterine tumors, and normal delivery.
Results:
Hospitalization cost is higher among insured than uninsured patients due to longer hospitalization lengths of stay, type of disease (highest among cholecystitis patients), type of gender - females, old-aged people, and type of marital status - singles, as well as drugs expenses, surgical expenses, and other medical acts.
Conclusion:
Require a better government's supervision system over medical insurance expenses such as reforming methods of payments, building up new cost compensation mechanism, and unifying and stabilizing prices for each category of medicines.
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