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Objective:Clinical research is widely carried out in medical institutions, and there are differences in the use of research and conventional medical funds. This paper aimed to analyze the compliance issues of insurance fund in clinical research and explore the management strategies in the institutions conducting clinical trials or research.Methods:By consulting the literature, questionnaire, and work practice, this paper analyzed the current situation and existing problems of the compliance of the medical insurance fund in domestic clinical trials, proposed targeted management measures for the use of funds, and standardizes the corresponding workflow.Results:This paper summarized three payment methods of research-related funds and analyzed the main problems at present, including the definition of trial requirements, the payment of combined drugs specified in the protocol, the particularity of medical device trials, the payment of adverse events in clinical trial, the insurance of post-marketing research and clinical trial. According to the regulatory requirements and work practices, the corresponding management countermeasures were sorted out, including that the project funds and insurance audit should be carried out inside the medical institution. Clinical research, medical insurance management departments, ethics committees, and other departments should collaborate on establishing and improving a compliance management system. The research team should strengthen the management of adverse events, strengthen the publicity and education of the participants, and make good use of the sharing platform.Conclusions:The research institution should establish standardized and feasible processes, the research team should strengthen the management, and the use of the sharing platform is conducive to ensuring the compliance of the medical insurance fund and protecting the interests of the participants.
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Objective:To construct and verify a model of excessive medical behavior clues enrichment, for the technical support for the safe and rational use of medical insurance fund.Methods:A model of excessive medical behavior clues enrichment was constructed by the rank assignment method. The inpatient transaction records of medical insurance for employees and residents in 5 tumor hospitals in Beijing from 2016 to 2019 were obtained to verify the validity of the model. The patients were grouped according to age and gender, and each transaction record was converted into a standardized score V(0-100 scores), all transactions were divided into 22 groups according to V value. The Cochran-Armitage trend test was used to analyze the variation trend of enrichment rate with the increase of V value. Chi-square test was used to compare the chargeback rates of different groups. The correlation between the standardized score V and the amount of chargeback was tested by Pearson.Results:There were 872 599 and 86 356 hospitalization transactions for employee and resident medical insurance patients, with included 1 164 and 103 chargeback records respectively. The average score and median of V-value of employee and resident medical insurance transactions were scores of 49 and 50 respectively.When V>0, the enrichment rates of the employee and resident medical insurance were on the rise with the increasing of V( Z=23.86, P<0.001; Z=11.02, P<0.001), the refusal rates among different groups was significant different( χ2=1 307.16, P<0.001)and the correlation between V value and the chargeback amount was statistically significant( r=0.29, P<0.001; r=0.30, P=0.003). Conclusions:This study established a clue enrichment model of excessive medical behavior based on the rank assignment method. By analyzing a large number of medical insurance transaction records, the model can focus on the medical insurance transaction with suspected excessive medical treatment behavior, and has a certain guiding role in the management of medical insurance fund.
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In recent years, the medical insurance coverage of China has been increased significantly, and the medical insurance policies have been launched continuously, so the traditional manual audit method is unable to support medical institutions to effectively supervise the medical insurance fund. In view of this situation, a tertiary hospital in Beijing had successfully built an intelligent medical insurance audit system for drugs, diagnosis and treatment projects under key supervision, realized the prior audit and in-process control of the illegal use of medical insurance funds, through the establishment of intelligent audit rules, the design of audit trigger points and the interception level of illegal medical orders, and the establishment of a pre-operational preparation system and continuous improvement mechanism. In March 2021, the hospital officially launched the system. After the application of the system, the amount and quantity of outpatient medical insurance refusal from April to September 2021 were 10 587 yuan and 72 respectively, which decreased by 79.21% and 77.50% compared with the same period in 2020. This system effectively improved the quality and efficiency of medical insurance fund supervision.
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As suggested by regulatory feedbacks from relevant national regulatory agencies on the use of medical insurance funds, noticeable problems were found in the compliance and rationality of medical service charges among Chinese hospitals. Based on the practice of hospital management, the authors summarized common problems of various medical service charge management as reported by the management authorities at all levels. These problems referred to name-replaceable charges and affiliated charges, splitting charges, repeated charges, and multiple(false) charges. On this basis, the paper analyzed such hospital management risks incurred as regulatory penalties, fee disputes and medical disputes, as well as their internal and external causes. In the end, the paper put forward countermeasures and suggestions for reference by hospitals in their management of medical service charges.
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Objective:To evaluate the impact of the reform of the county medical community on the expenditure of medical insurance funds, and to provide references for maintaining the stability of the medical insurance fund and deepening the reform of the medical community.Methods:Medical insurance data of urban and rural residents in M County, Yunnan province from 2016 to 2019 were collected, and a discontinuous time series model was used to analyze the impact of county medical community reform on medical insurance fund expenditures.Results:Since the reform, the number of patients discharged from county-level hospitals has shown a downward trend, averaging a decrease of 25.996 people per month; yet increases have emerged with the average hospitalization expenditure, the average hospitalization overall fund expenditure, and the average outpatient overall fund expenditure, averaging a monthly increase of 90.931 yuan, 50.014 yuan and 1.528 yuan respectively. The average hospitalization expenditure, the average hospitalization overall fund expenditure, and the average outpatient overall fund expenditure of the township hospitals all showed an upward trend, averaging a monthly increase of 31.191 yuan, 38.678 yuan and 0.085 yuan respectively. The flow of external medical insurance funds of the medical community has shown a continuous upward trend, averaging a monthly increase of hospitalization fund expenditures of 33.005 yuan, and a monthly increase of outpatient overall fund expenditures of 4.896 yuan overall.Conclusions:The M County medical community should further strengthen the top-level design, explore the reform of medical insurance payment methods, improve the regional information platform, standardize the referral system, and strengthen supervision to deepen the construction of the medical community to ensure the sustainable operation of medical insurance funds.
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OBJECTIVE：To construct a calculation method which can accurately reflect the medical insurance fund expenditure of intervention scheme for cross-year survival patients ，and to provide reference for the research of medical insurance budget impact analysis（BIA）. METHODS ：Based on survival data of cohort model ，taking the patients diagnosed in each cycle in each year as a cohort，the number of per capita survival cycle of cohort patients in each state in the study year was calculated ，i.e. the average survival time ；on this basis ，the total cost of patients in all cohorts in the study year was calculated according to the number of people in each cohort and the per capita cost each cycle in each state. Taking the intervention scheme of a cancer as an example ， the calculation was carried out by the established algorithm ，and the calculation results were compared with the results of several common algorithms ；at the same time ，the application suggestions were put forward for the expansion of the constructed algorithm in special cases. RESULTS & CONCLUSIONS ：Compared with the several common algorithms ，the calculation process of the constructed algorithm is more in line with the process of medical insurance fund expenditure related to drug intervention scheme in the real world ，and it can flexibly adapt to the calculation needs in a variety of special situations. This algorithm can more accurately calculate the medical insurance fund expenditure of a intervention scheme in a specific year ，and to a certain extent solve the problem of inaccurate prediction of medical insurance fund expenditure due to insufficient consideration of cross-year survival patients or simple and rough calculation process. It can provide a more accurate method choice for the research of medical insurance BIA in China.
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OBJECTIVE： To evaluate the effects of ivabradine in the treatment of heart failure on medical insurance fund budget in China， and to provide support evidence of related economical evaluation for medical insurance department to solve the problem of reimbursement admission of the drug in hospital outpatient department and the establishment of drug list in hospital. METHODS： Excel decision tree model was used. Pharmacoeconomic analysis was conducted based on the data reported in domestic literatures over the years. Firstly， according to the prevalence rate of heart failure in China， the number of patients with heart failure was estimated， which accorded with NYHA cardiac function class Ⅱ-Ⅳ， systolic blood pressure dysfunction and ivabradine indication. Then the cost of ivabradine was estimated. Secondly， the total number of hospitalizations and the cost of hospitalization due to heart failure were estimated. Finally， the cost of ivabredine and the cost of treatment saved by avoiding re-hospitalization due to the use of ivabredine were considered comprehensively. Static budget impact analysis was conducted to evaluate the effects of the use of ivabredine on medical insurance fund budget. RESULTS： The prevalence rate of heart failure in China was raised to 1.3％ in 2013. It was estimated that the number of heart failure patients between 35-75 years old in China could be about 8.51 million and total hospitalization times was about 4.32 million per year. The economic burden of hospitalization in heart failure patients was about 168.940 billion yuan in whole country. Since 18％ of patients could be avoided re-hospitalization after treatment with ivabradine， the cost of hospitalization could be saved by about 30.410 billion yuan， while the total cost of taking ivabradine was about 17.525 billion yuan. Therefore， the use of ivabradine could save the hidden medical cost budget by about 12.886 billion yuan， which had obvious cost-effectiveness. Static budget impact analysis results showed that by 2019-2020， the expected proportion of patients with heart failure covered by ivabradine would increased to 8.70％， and the total consumption sum would reach about 1.797 billion yuan. The incremental cost savings ratio （ICSR） showed that the cost of hospitalization could be saved by about 11 951 yuan for each additional case of heart failure treated with ivabradine； there could be 5 711 yuan of balance by deducting drug cost 6 240 yuan of ivabradine. CONCLUSIONS： The cost savings of hospitalization treated by ivabradine is not only enough to offset the cost of ivabradine itself， but also has a premium effect. The drug is of certain economy for the treatment of heart failure in China.
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Objective:To estimate the medical compensation fees in medical insurance fund under different compensation schemes in Inner Mongolia,and to study the feasibility of financing in the integration process of basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.Methods:Based on the method of ratio method,original difference GM (1,1) model,Delphi method and moving average,the medical compensation fees under different compensation schemes in Inner Mongolia in 2015 was calculated.Results:Ignoring the factors such as pay line and cap line,the total compensation for medical expenses under the five medical compensation schemes were 18.778 billion yuan,25.355 billion yuan,30.351 billion yuan,32.346 billion yuan and 46.04 billion yuan.Conclusion:Based on the measurement of medical compensation under different compensation schemes,it calculated the financing amount of the integration of medical insurance,analyzed the feasibility of the basic medical insurance financing in Inner Mongolia.In the treatment of growth factors,insurance factors and other indicators,the innovative use of a variety of methods combined approach,scientific and effective calculation of the growth factor and insurance factor,revised a part of the annual growth factor which had large growth,the insurance factor value was too high and other problem,in order to accurately assess the medical compensation.
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Objective:To explore the mechanism and influences of population aging on medical insurance expenditure in China and put forward the improvement strategy of medical insurance.Methods:It constructed the structural equation model based on some related indicators in 31 provinces and cities of China from 2005 to 2015.Results:The indirect effect of population aging on medical insurance fund was higher than the direct effect.Medical expenses had the most influence degree of medical insurance fund.There were action and reaction between per capita GDP and medical insurance fund,while the reaction was much stronger.Conclusion:The government should construct a multi-level mode of disease prevention and control,further increase the government fiscal subsidies for medical insurance,improve the care coverage,and improve the financing mechanisms to develop the sustainable operation of medical insurance fund in China.
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Objective:Analyzing reimbursement limits of National Basic Medical Insurance Drug List 2017.Methods:The kinds of reimbursement limits and characters of relative drugs inquantities,categories and indications were concluded through methods of induction and correlation.Results:903 drugs were limited in National Basic Medical Insurance Drug List 2017,involving categories of insurance,serviceable range of pooling funds,second-line use and indications.Conclusion:The reimbursement limits were normative,ensuring rational drug use and efficiency of medical insurance funds.
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Objective To study the impacts of medicine and pharmacy separation reform on medical insurance fund and medical care seeking behavior of such patients.Methods The insurance data of patients was collected from year 201 1 to year 2014 at the hospital of the author.The differences of hospitals' revenue from insurance,the use of insurance fund and medical care seeking behavior of patients,before and after the reform were analyzed.Results The results showed that the effect of medicine and pharmacy separation reform in achieving translation;the proportions of drug and per-patient drug expenses were reduced.However,the demand of insurance fund was increased,and the fund used in outpatients began to exceed that used in inpatients after the reform.Totally,the choices of outpatients on doctor's technical titles were influenced by the pricing,as more outpatients tended to choose the intermediate title doctors,and the proportion was increasing.The differences of the choices on the outpatient in superior departments were very small,while those in non-dominant departments were very big,the same as the total patients.Conclusion There are both advantages and disadvantages in impacts of the reform on medical insurance fund conducted in some hospital in Beijing.The advantages included that the hospitals'revenue was not decreased from insurance patients,the use of insurance on paying drugs were reduced by management of proper medication, and out-of-pocket burden of the insurance patients was reduced.Yet the disadvantages contained that because of cheaper drugs and favorable insurance policy on the reform,the outpatients preferred higher level hospitals to buy drugs only,and the reform might lead to the increase of the requirement of insurance fund.
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Objective To learn the impact of county-level public hospital reform on the expenditure of medical insurance fund.Methods Using the difference-in-differences model to analyze the differences incurred in both hospitalization expenditure and expenditure of the fund at two county-level public hospitals.Results The reform has reduced both the drug expenditure and examination expenses per hospitalization at such hospitals at 318.5 yuan and 410.2 yuan respectively,yet with an increase of treatment expenditure of 535.6 yuan per hospitalization.No significant growth rate was incurred by the reform to the medical insurance fund.A significant difference of both hospitalization expenditure of patients and the fund was found among patients covered by different medical insurance funds.Conclusions The reform has achieved initial success at such hospitals in reducing inpatients′drug and examination expenditures.However,it is important to prevent from the treatment expenditure from an offset increase;to further reform the payment modes for safety of the fund,to remove the differentiation found in the existing medical insurance system,and leverage the regulating role of various medical insurance funds on medical service behaviors and expenditures.
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Objective To explore whether health examination save medical insurance fund or not. Methods To observe the sparing medical cost which 371 health examination people avoid repeated checking and shorten the length of stay during hospitalization from March 2006 to March 2007. To observe the effect of sparing medical cost because of regular health examination, early discovery diseases, pretreatment promptly and avoidance transforming to advanced diseases. Results Because of avoiding repeated checking and shortening the length of stay,everybody save the medical cost about 570 yuan,371 people can save about 21 ten thousands yuan. To statistics the average hospital cost of different courses of eight common diseases and malignant tumors from January to November at 2007, we discovered that the medical cost is large distinction between the earlier period and advanced stage of disease. For example: the medical cost of one stage of hypertension is 6608 yuan ,the two stage is 8838 yuan ,the three stage is 13 869 yuan, and the stage of hypertensive heart disease is 13 033 yuan. Parts of health examination crowd who stay at my hospital from 1996 were visited for five years ,we conformed many chronic diseases by prompt intervention can relieve and even reverse, avoiding the transformation to incurable disease which will consume a large number of strength and money. Conclusion Health examination resource is a medical treatment resource which isn't restricted by social security fund, the utilization can not only save medical cost but also discover and treat diseases earlier, thus we can save the strength and money before the advanced diseases.