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Table 4 Effects of copayment waiver policy implementation according to disease severity among National Health Insurance beneficiaries

From: An evaluation on the effect of the copayment waiver policy for Korean hospitalized children under the age of six

Variable

Inpatient days per case

Hospital expenditure per case

Total

Industrial worker

Self-employed

Total

Industrial worker

Self-employed

Intercept

1.296a

1.254a

1.339a

11.724a

11.696a

11.769a

Gender

−0.004a

−0.002

−0.007a

0.051a

0.053a

0.046a

Age

−0.018a

−0.020a

−0.017a

0.114a

0.118a

0.104a

Type of Medical Institute

      

Tertiary hospital and General hospital

0.189a

0.188a

0.193a

1.078a

1.084a

1.066a

Hospital

0.075a

0.066a

0.090a

0.310a

0.288a

0.351a

Clinic

-

-

-

-

-

-

Etc. (Dental hospital, Health center, Oriental medical clinic)

−0.473a

−0.469a

−0.481a

−0.184a

−0.281a

−0.027

Fatal disease

0.370a

0.373a

0.365a

0.331a

0.329a

0.332a

Premium level

      

Lower

0.114a

0.147a

0.111a

0.088a

0.102a

0.092a

Lower middle

0.109a

0.135a

0.088a

0.080a

0.096a

0.066a

Middle

0.078a

0.098a

0.066a

0.055a

0.067a

0.046a

High middle

0.040a

0.063a

0.030a

0.022a

0.033a

0.016a

High

-

-

-

-

-

-

Time

−0.032a

−0.015a

−0.037a

−0.163a

−0.167a

−0.148a

Fatal disease*time

0.093a

0.093a

0.092a

0.386a

0.393a

0.370a

Premium level*time

      

Lower*time

−0.036a

−0.049a

−0.043a

−0.044a

−0.023a

−0.121a

Lower middle*time

−0.013a

−0.029a

−0.003

−0.028a

−0.035a

−0.021a

Middle*time

−0.014a

−0.029a

−0.003

−0.031a

−0.041a

−0.014

High middle*time

0.001

−0.013a

0.009

0.000

−0.006

0.013

High*time

-

-

-

-

-

-

R2

0.099

0.102

0.095

0.362

0.373

0.341

  1. aP-value < 0.05.