ArticleScientific reports2025
Trend analysis of medical expenses under DRG payment reform in China.
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- Risk Governance of Payment Exceptions Under China's DRG/DIP Reform: A Structured Policy-Text Analysis of Special Case Negotiation Rules.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2026Article
- Association of DRG-based payment reform with inpatient costs and resource use among older adults: an interrupted time series study in a county-level referral hospital in China.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Implementation and Clinical Application of 24-Hour Intraocular Pressure Monitoring in China: A Nationwide Survey.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Article
- Risk-adjusted capitation payment for outpatient services in China's healthcare insurance: a case study of an affluent city in southern China.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- CHS-DRG 2.0 and insurance-specific patient cost sharing in gestational diabetes admissions: a regression discontinuity in time study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- DRG-based payment and governance in high-complexity thoracic surgery: implications for efficiency and care delivery.Frontiers in health services · 2026Article
- Comparative performance of multiple predictive models constructed for budesonide nebulized formulation requirements.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Article
- Analysis of cross-provincial healthcare utilization among hospitalized patients in a tertiary Chinese medicine hospital.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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Abstract
The impact and evolving trends of Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) payment reform on inpatient medical expenses have drawn substantial academic and societal attention. However, there remains a notable gap in research focusing on the cost-control efficacy and its dynamic trends under this reform. Employing Mann-Whitney U testing, structural change analysis, and interrupted time-series methods, this study quantifies pre-post DRG reform shifts in inpatient expenditures, insurance compensation patterns, and expenditure trajectories. The results showed that per capita hospitalization expenses decreased 713.93 yuan (β
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