Changes in health care utilization and financial protection after integration of the rural and urban social health insurance schemes in Beijing, China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

China expanded health coverage to residents in informal economic sectors by the rural new cooperative medical scheme (NCMS) for rural population and urban resident basic medical insurance scheme (URBMI) for non-working urban residents. Fragmentation of resident social health insurance schemes exacerbated the health inequity and China started the integration of urban and rural resident medical insurance schemes since 2016. Beijing finished the insurance integration in 2017 and has been implementing a unified urban and rural resident basic medical insurance scheme (URRBMI) since the beginning of 2018. This study aims to examine changes in health care utilization and financial protection after integration of the rural and urban social health insurance schemes.

Methods

SUBMITTER: Shi Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9528155 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature