The effects of pharmaceutical service fee policy on the county-level public hospitals:A case study of five counties( districts) in Chongqing / 中国卫生政策研究

ABSTRACT

It is an important content for breaking the mechanism ofdrug-supplement-medicine that the com-pensation system of drug zero price rate should be improved in public hospitals. In this paper, we collect random sampling survey data of the implementation of zero-difference drug sales before and after which is performed in People's hospital and Traditional Chinese Medicine hospital in five counties( districts) of Chongqing city. Based on the data, the status and effects of pharmaceutical service Fee policy on the county-level public hospitals in Chongqing was evaluated by combining quantitative description with qualitative analysis in the research methods. The study shows that the compensation policy design of pharmaceutical service fee is reasonable in Chongqing city and its posi-tive effect is obvious. It has also an obvious effect on the reduction of the average outpatient and hospitalization drug expense;but it's not conducive to arouse the enthusiasm of public hospital deepening reform of the initiative because the actual compensation rate of pharmaceutical service fee is low, and the public hospital comprehensive compensa-tion mechanism and operation mechanism reform are lagging behind.