The Response of Different-Levels Public Hospitals to Regional Global Budget with a Floating Payment System: Evidence from China

ABSTRACT: Background: Regional Global Budget with a Floating Payment System (RGB-FPS) is a global budget widely used in medical insurance payments. However, existing studies on hospitals’ responses to RGB-FPS have limitations. First, existing studies have paid little attention to RGB-FPS’s macro effects. Theoretical studies did not analyze differences between different levels of hospitals. Secondly, studies did not reveal whether RGB-FPS has the same impact on the public-hospital-dominated market. Methods: First, we refine the research hypotheses through theoretical analysis. We then test the hypotheses empirically through interrupted time series analysis. Results: Theoretical analysis found that small hospitals were easier to transfer costs. The empirical analysis found that after RGB-FPS, the prop

SUBMITTER: Xiang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9740857 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature