Impact analysis of medicine markups abolition on revenue structure of 12 public hospitals in Qingdao / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To learn the impact of abolishing medicine markups on the revenue structure of public hospitals in Qingdao city.@*Methods@#The business performance of 12 public hospitals directly under the Qingdao Health and Family Planning Commission was analyzed to compare their revenue structure the year before (July 2015 to June 2016) and the year since the reform (July 2016 to June 2017).@*Results@#The reform has witnessed increased government subsidies, and decreased revenue from drugs and healthcare materials. For example, the proportion of drug expenditure decreased from 44.21% to 32.71%, while the proportion of medical service income and that of examination and laboratory examination increased to some extent.@*Conclusions@#Given the initial success of the reform, challenges remain in further curbing revenues from examinations and checkups, and growing revenue from TCM drugs as well.