Study on the ability of New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme to reduce health risk factors in Anhui province / 中国卫生政策研究

Objective: To describe the degree of poverty caused by diseases among farmers who have joined New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme( NRCMS) in Anhui province, and analyze the ability of NRCMS to reduce health risk factors in Anhui province, in order to provide suggestions for improving the NRCMS strategy. Methods: This paper randomly selects three counties to conduct comparative analysis on the NRCMS strategic changes from the aspects of registration rates, funding levels and compensation ratios between 2013 and 2014, in order to analyze the ability of NRCMS to reduce health risk factors from the aspects of the rate of poverty caused by diseases, the resolving degree of poverty caused by diseases, the alleviation degree of poverty caused by diseases, etc. Results: The ability of NRCMS to reduce health risk factors in Anhui province has improved between 2013 and 2014 , but the improve-ment is limited. Conclusions:In order to reduce the incidence of poverty caused by diseases among the farmers, gov-ernment should reform the payment methods, control the outflow of patients and improve the multi-level security sys-tem, in order to gradually reduce the poverty caused by diseases among farmers.

Study on Benefits of New Rural Cooperative Medical System in Anhui / 中国卫生经济

Objective:By analyzing the benefits of hospitalization and outpatient of New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NCMS) in Anhui, to provide suggestions for further improving NCMS. Methods: The peasants in Anhui were surveyed by analyzing relevant data to get and analyze the benefits of peasants under the changes of NCMS. Results: The actual compensation ratio of hospitalization and the actual outpatient compensation ratio are all increased, the actual outpatient compensation ratio also increased, the coverage of benefit has expanded, but the average self-pay costs did not decrease significantly due to increase of medical expenses. Conclusion: To further improve the benefit of the peasants, it needs to broadly spread the policy, strengthen the supervision of medical institutions and implement the Catastrophic Medical Insurance Policy.