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Table 5 The impacts of UZMDP on outpatient services utilization and expenditures (DID model)

From: Did the universal zero-markup drug policy lower healthcare expenditures? Evidence from Changde, China

 

Outpatient visits

Total

Drug

Diagnosis

Laboratory

Medical consumables

 

Estimatea

Se

Estimate

Se

Estimate

Se

Estimate

Se

Estimate

Se

Estimate

Se

Intercept

-0.073

0.037

1,478.000***

169.1

-1,254.000***

80.74

-1,119.000***

34.22

-627.924***

21.896

-1,766

1,322

UZMDP adoption

0.094***

0.018

158.3

93.62

-1,262.000***

43.04

29.2

15.1

-12.033

11.745

143.500***

16.05

Year

-0.035*

0.015

-23.01

81.56

1,568.000***

37.48

13.54

14.15

17.507

11.049

-33.500*

15.3

Group

0.041**

0.013

-81.460***

68.05

630.700***

31.72

343.000***

11.07

222.769***

8.685

217.2

11.34

Age (year)

0.001***

0.000

8.763***

1.366

1.802**

0.631

-0.926***

0.175

-1.691***

0.132

-0.345*

0.163

Annual income

 0 - 20,000 CNY

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

 20,000 - 40,000 CNY

-0.160***

0.016

-671.100***

87.76

-200.800***

40.23

-3.361

10.98

-4.903

8.489

-39.150***

9.828

 40,000 - 60,000 CNY

-0.012

0.018

-848.600***

96.99

-41.35

44.39

-3.832

11.99

-3.874

9.243

-19.86

10.73

 ≥ 60,000 CNY

0.080***

0.018

-585.600***

98.39

119.200**

45.01

-1.436

12.16

-9.578

9.359

11.31

10.83

Gender

 Female

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

 Male

0.037***

0.008

456.500***

42.14

26.41

19.4

-49.670***

5.284

-36.485***

4.039

-20.150***

4.827

Type of health insurance

 Residents

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

REF

 Employees

1.310***

0.029

-435.600***

111.8

412.400***

55.39

602.400***

28.65

276.711***

16.413

1,250

1,322

 Retired veteran cadres

2.627***

0.042

17,400.000***

217.2

10,590.000***

99.71

-544.5

1,627

-509.056

1,718.69

199.1

4,709

 Regression diagnosticsb

0.000/1.000/0.000

0.013

0.026

0.021

0.019

0.023

  1. aSignificance codes: *** ≤ 0.001, ** ≤ 0.01, * ≤ 0.05
  2. bRegression diagnostics: the p-values of the Over-dispersion test, the Chi-squared test, and the Likelihood ratio test were reported for the healthcare utilization models, while the McFadden’s pseudo R2 was reported for the healthcare expenditures models