Effects of fee-for-service, diagnosis-related-group, and mixed payment systems on physicians’ medical service behavior: experimental evidence

Table 7 Loss of patient benefit based on disease severity under mixed payment schemes

Group	Mixed Payment Schemes	Moderate		Intermediate		Severe
Group	Mixed Payment Schemes	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
I	A-D2	0.07	0.08	0.13	0.11	0.15	0.17
II	A-D4	0.05	0.07	0.05	0.07	0.12	0.11
III	A-D6	0.11	0.11	0.03	0.05	0.03	0.05
IV	A-F8	0.17	0.16	0.10	0.11	0.04	0.08
V	A-F6	0.13	0.14	0.07	0.09	0.06	0.09

This table shows the average loss of patient benefit under mixed payment schemes in group I, II, III, IV and V. Experimental conditions A-D2, A-D4, A-D6 refer to adjusted Mix-more-DRG(2), Mix-more-DRG(4), Mix-more-DRG(6); A-F8 and A-F6 refer to adjusted Mix-more-FFS(8) and Mix-more-FFS(6)
Diagnosis-Related-Group; FFS Fee-for-Service

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