Designing Principles and Methods of Casemix-Based Episode Payment System under New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme / 中国卫生经济

ABSTRACT

With the development of payment system reform for New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme, inpatient case-based payment reform had been exploring in local counties. Based on the case study of one county in central China and synthesis of international evidences and experiences, to introduce the disease grouping principles, the cost calculating method, and the control measures of case-based payment mechanism by case-mix and provide significant lessons for other counties’ design and implementation of inpatient case-based payment reform.