Differences in medical costs among urban lung cancer patients with different health insurance schemes: a retrospective study

Table 5 The impact of insurance type and city on patients’ cost

Characteristics	Medical costs		Outside-insurance OOP expenses		OOP expenses
Characteristics	Coef.	95% CI	Coef.	95% CI	Coef.	95% CI
Insurance type (Ref: URBMI)
UEBMI	0.233^***	[0.196,0.271]	0.267^***	[0.134,0.400]	-0.319^***	[−0.371,-0.267]
Cities (Ref:City A)
City B	−0.044	[− 0.097,0.009]	−1.842^***	[−2.052,-1.632]	− 0.503^***	[− 0.576,-0.43]
City C	0.166^***	[0.075,0.257]	−1.353^***	[−1.678,-1.027]	−0.439^***	[− 0.565,-0.314]

^*** p < 0.01, ^** p < 0.05, ^* p < 0.1
UEBMI Urban Employees’ Basic Medical insurance, URBMI Urban Residents’ Basic Medical Insurance; All models were adjusted for gender, age group, hospital level, comorbidity, and year

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