Practice of hospital cost control by way of diseases payment scoring of global budget in Huaian,Jiangsu province / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

By means of global budget,the disease-specific scoring method was put in place for both settlement and payment in Huaian,Jiangsu province,for the purpose of cost control by the hospitals.This reform consists of total cost accounting,rational performance-based distribution system,multi-approached regulation of medical behaviors,and individual disease management to regulate medical behavior.These efforts aim at aligning with medical insurance payment reform,so as to improve hospital management,operation quality and socio-economic outcomes.Problems found in practice were also reviewed.