Impacts of the zero mark-up policy on hospitalization expenses of T2DM and cholecystolithiasis inpatients in SC province, western China: an interrupted time series analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since 2009, a series of ambitious health system reforms have been launched in China, including the zero mark-up drug policy (ZMDP); the policy was intended to reduce substantial medicine expenses for patients by abolishing the 15% mark-up on drugs. This study aims to evaluate the impacts of ZMDP on medical expenditures from the perspective of disease burden disparities in western China.

Method

Two typical diseases including Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in internal medicine and cholecystolithiasis (CS) in surgery were selected from medical records in a large tertiary level-A hospital in SC Province. The monthly average medical expenses of patients from May 2015 to August 2018 were extracted to construct an interrupted time series (ITS) model to evaluate the impa

SUBMITTER: Guo X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10177657 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature