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Assessment of Medical Service Pricing in China's Healthcare System: Challenges, Constraints, and Policy Recommendations

Medical service pricing reform was considered as one of the focuses of China's remarkable health reform. This paper preliminarily assessed the roles of medical service pricing in the context of China's healthcare system. Specifically, we described the potential roles of medical service pri...

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Autores principales: Xiong, Wenying, Deng, Yufan, Yang, Yili, Zhang, Yumeng, Pan, Jay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8661692/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34900924
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.787865
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Deng, Yufan
Yang, Yili
Zhang, Yumeng
Pan, Jay
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description Medical service pricing reform was considered as one of the focuses of China's remarkable health reform. This paper preliminarily assessed the roles of medical service pricing in the context of China's healthcare system. Specifically, we described the potential roles of medical service pricing in China and pointed out relevant challenges that emerged in practice as the result of reform-related activities. Multiple constraint factors that might have induced undesired outcomes were then recognized, including the excessive diversity and specialization of medical services, the price inelasticity of patients' demand, and the inadequate capability of both medical institutions and administrations. Finally, we provided policy recommendations to inform the ongoing medical service pricing reform in China from a long-term perspective.
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spelling pubmed-86616922021-12-11 Assessment of Medical Service Pricing in China's Healthcare System: Challenges, Constraints, and Policy Recommendations Xiong, Wenying Deng, Yufan Yang, Yili Zhang, Yumeng Pan, Jay Front Public Health Public Health Medical service pricing reform was considered as one of the focuses of China's remarkable health reform. This paper preliminarily assessed the roles of medical service pricing in the context of China's healthcare system. Specifically, we described the potential roles of medical service pricing in China and pointed out relevant challenges that emerged in practice as the result of reform-related activities. Multiple constraint factors that might have induced undesired outcomes were then recognized, including the excessive diversity and specialization of medical services, the price inelasticity of patients' demand, and the inadequate capability of both medical institutions and administrations. Finally, we provided policy recommendations to inform the ongoing medical service pricing reform in China from a long-term perspective. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8661692/ /pubmed/34900924 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.787865 Text en Copyright © 2021 Xiong, Deng, Yang, Zhang and Pan. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8661692/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.787865
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