Both developed and developing countries have been searching for effective provider
payment methods to control health expenditure inflation. In January 2018, Guangzhou city in …

With the urgent need to regulate provider behaviors, China developed a novel patient
classification with global budget payment system, expecting to achieve both easy …

Governments across the globe have made repeated attempts to reform their health systems
in recent decades with the purpose of improving access while containing costs. What is the …

The availability and affordability of medicines remain major health challenges around the
world. In March 2019, the Chinese government introduced a pilot National Centralized Drug …

The paper examines cream skimming behaviour by studying hospital transfers in a mixed
public-private hospital system. A key innovation is the use of capacity utilization to identify …

This study examines the impact of social insurance benefit restrictions on physician
behaviour, using ophthalmologists as a case study. We examine whether ophthalmologists …

This paper uses a patient discharge dataset from China to study whether and how medical
expenses increase for those patients who have better insurance coverage. It uncovers …

Public health insurance schemes in China are mostly location-based. This makes it
challenging for patients to claim reimbursement for medical expenses incurred outside of the …

Background Cost containment is a major issue for health policy, in many countries.
Policymakers have used various measures to deal with this problem. In Switzerland, the …

Background The Reform of medical insurance payment methods is one of the crucial
measures for controlling irrational medical practices. In China, the National Health Insurance …