Impact of China's healthcare price reforms on traditional Chinese medicine public hospitals in Beijing: an interrupted time-series study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the 2017 implementation of China's 2009 healthcare price reforms on Beijing's secondary and tertiary traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) hospitals.

Design

We employed a panel-interrupted time-series model with hospital fixed effects to estimate the impact of the price reforms.

Setting

Beijing, April 2014 to April 2018.

Participants

All TCM hospitals in Beijing.

Outcome measures

Our dependent variables comprised the monthly outpatient and inpatient revenues, the number of monthly outpatient visits and inpatient admissions, the average total expenditures per outpatient visit and per inpatient admission, the average drug expenditures (except herbal medicines) per outpatient visit and per inpatient admission and the average medical servi

SUBMITTER: Zhu D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6701667 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature