The impact of National Volume-Based Procurement (NVBP) on healthcare expenditures for breast cancer outpatients: an interrupted time series analysis in Wuhan, China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In January 2019, the Chinese government launched a pilot National Volume-Based Procurement (NVBP) program, which was then gradually extended to the whole country to alleviate the financial burden of healthcare expenditure. This study aims to investigate the impact of the NVBP policy on healthcare expenditure.

Method

By extracting outpatient payment records of breast cancer patients in a tertiary hospital information system from May 2020 to April 2023, we performed an interrupted time series (ITS) to assess the impact of the NVBP policy on healthcare expenditure.

Results

ITS analyses showed that the NVBP policy mitigated the persistent increase in total average monthly per-visit expenditure, shifting it from an upward trend (9.68 CNY (p < 0.01)) to a flat tr

SUBMITTER: Tao J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12849731 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature