Public hospitals′ salary status and effectiveness of salary reform in Zhejiang province / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

The salary reform in public hospital is not only related to the interests of medical staffs, but also to the health care reform. Based on data of 17 provincial public hospitals in Zhejiang province from 2012 to 2017, and having calculated such factors as drug markup rate, hospital scale and general/specialized hospital characteristics, the authors analyzed the effectiveness of public hospitals salaries reform from the perspectives of public duties performance, service quantity, medical expenditure, cost containment, service efficiency, implementation of insurance policies, among others. The growth rate of performance salary in Zhejiang provincial hospitals was less than 15%, and the performance salary accounted for less than 70% of the total compensation. Such factors as cost containment, improvement of efficiency, service quantity and public welfare duties performance impose, though having minimal impact, were found to be significantly positively correlated to such compensation. Given the minimum impact of reforms in health care expenditure and insurance policy on public hospital salaries, lower medical expenditure and insurance refusal rates are conducive to raising such salaries. The salary reform of provincial public hospitals has achieved initial success, yet their salary system calls for further improvement.