{"id":987645680,"date":"2020-06-14T05:47:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T04:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/reforming-public-hospital-financing-in-china-progress-and-challenges\/"},"modified":"2020-06-14T05:47:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T04:47:36","slug":"reforming-public-hospital-financing-in-china-progress-and-challenges","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/reforming-public-hospital-financing-in-china-progress-and-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Reforming public hospital financing in China: progress and challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, Chinese researchers described <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/365\/bmj.l4015\">the effects of the financing reforms of public hospitals<\/a> and suggests steps to further progress towards equitable, efficient, and good quality care by reviewing China&#8217;s health system financing reform over 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Key messages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Perverse financial incentives for public hospitals contributed to the inefficient use of medical resources in China before 2009<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Financing reform focused on removing drug mark-ups, increased budget allocation, adjusting fee schedules, and reforming payment methods<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The reform has substantially reduced hospitals\u2019 reliance on profit from pharmaceutical sales, while progress on the other measures is insufficient<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The varied quality of care, increasing hospital dominance, and growing costs to patients requires further reform<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>We recommend consolidating the leadership in financing reform, implementing value based strategic purchasing, and allowing public hospitals greater management autonomy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, Chinese researchers described the effects of the financing reforms of public hospitals and suggests steps to further progress towards equitable, efficient, and good quality care by reviewing China&#8217;s health system financing reform over 10 years. Key messages: Perverse financial incentives for public hospitals contributed to the inefficient use of medical resources in China&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[131],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987645680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987645680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987645680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987645680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987645680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987645680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}