ABSTRACT
Objective:To analyze the impact of Beijing Medical Reform on inpatient costs of medical and surgical patients in a hospital, and to provide reference for the hospital to explore the path of patient cost control.Methods:Based on the data of medical and surgical inpatients′ expenses from June 2016 to December 2019 in a hospital in Beijing, breakpoint regression method was used to analyze the impact of the two reforms(namely the comprehensive reform of separation of medicine and pharmacy and the comprehensive reform of medical consumption linkage)on the level of medical and surgical inpatients′ expenses and the cost structure of drugs and consumables.Results:The two reforms controlled the rapid rise of hospitalization expenses and reduced the proportion of drugs and medical consumption. The effect of the reforms on the total cost control of internal medical patients was better than that of surgical patients.For internal medical patients, the reform of separation of medicine and pharmacy played a greater role in the proportion of medicine; For surgical patients, the two reforms had effectively reduced the proportion of consumables, and the proportion of drugs had gradually decreased.Conclusions:The two reforms have effectively controlled the growth trend of hospitalization expenses, and changed the cost structure of drugs and consumables.