County medical community, medical insurance package payment, and hierarchical diagnosis and treatment-Empirical analysis of the impact of the pilot project of compact county medical communities in Sichuan Province.

ABSTRACT: Hierarchical diagnosis and treatment (HDT) is an important exploration direction to alleviate the rising pressure of health expenses and medical insurance fund expenditure in China, and to maintain and protect the public health in this country. In recent years, the construction of compact county medical communities (CCMC) has become the primary approach for implementing the HDT. Utilizing the quasi-natural experiment of the pilot project of CCMC in Sichuan Province in 2019, coupled with county-level data extracted from the ' Sichuan Provincial Health Statistics Yearbook ' spanning the years 2008 to 2021, this research evaluates the effect of the pilot project of CCMC on promoting HDT under the medical insurance package payment model. The results show that the pilot project of CCMC has sign

SUBMITTER: Ding S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10997099 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature