Table 2 Results revealing the impact of price deregulation on patients’ medical expenditure
From: Deregulation and pricing of medical services: a policy experiment based in China
Total expenditure | Diagnostic test expenditure | Drug expenditure | Service expenditure | Proportion of diagnostic test expenditure | Proportion of drug expenditure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Privite | 0.059*** | 0.076*** | 0.245*** | −0.117*** | − 0.019*** | 0.064*** |
(0.006) | (0.011) | (0.010) | (0.007) | (0.002) | (0.002) | |
Time | −0.107*** | − 0.056*** | − 0.441*** | 0.013* | 0.045*** | − 0.089*** |
(0.007) | (0.013) | (0.010) | (0.008) | (0.001) | (0.001) | |
Privite#time | 0.105*** | −1.175*** | −0.445*** | 0.343*** | −0.057*** | − 0.031*** |
(0.008) | (0.024) | (0.016) | (0.010) | (0.002) | (0.002) | |
Gender | −0.005 | −0.015* | − 0.013*** | 0.000 | − 0.000 | − 0.002*** |
(0.003) | (0.008) | (0.005) | (0.004) | (0.001) | (0.001) | |
Age | 0.017*** | 0.050*** | 0.015*** | −0.002*** | 0.005*** | 0.000* |
(0.000) | (0.001) | (0.000) | (0.000) | (0.000) | (0.000) | |
Days_inpatient | 0.036*** | 0.011*** | 0.041*** | 0.047*** | −0.005*** | 0.001*** |
(0.002) | (0.001) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.000) | (0.000) | |
Insurance | 0.141*** | 0.140*** | 0.170*** | 0.028*** | 0.006*** | 0.024*** |
(0.005) | (0.009) | (0.006) | (0.006) | (0.001) | (0.001) | |
Complication | 0.175*** | −0.324*** | 0.271*** | 0.197*** | −0.030*** | 0.017*** |
(0.006) | (0.013) | (0.009) | (0.007) | (0.001) | (0.001) | |
Constant | 7.101*** | 4.807*** | 5.928*** | 6.459*** | 0.158*** | 0.345*** |
(0.027) | (0.065) | (0.036) | (0.030) | (0.006) | (0.006) | |
ICD code | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Time fixed effect | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
N | 237,521 | 236,723 | 237,101 | 236,685 | 235,568 | 235,946 |
R-squared | 0.357 | 0.155 | 0.335 | 0.378 | 0.243 | 0.322 |