Distribution of monetary incentives in health insurance scheme influences acupuncture treatment choices: An experimental study

Lee, Ye-Seul; Kim, Song-Yi; Chae, Younbyoung

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“…The prenatal screening and postpartum visits provided by primary health care institutions free of charge are a service incentive, while the government provides direct subsidies for hospital delivery as a monetary incentive [42], prompting more rural women to be more willing to take advantage of hospital delivery services, which is one reason why hospital delivery services are better implemented. Compared to service incentives, monetary incentives are more likely to influence people's behavioral choices [43].…”

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Association between maternal health service utilization and under-five mortality rate in China and its provinces, 1990–2017

Zhang,

Li,

Wei

et al. 2024

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth

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Background The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal − 3.2 aims to eliminate all preventable under-five mortality rate (U5MR). In China, government have made efforts to provide maternal health services and reduce U5MR. Hence, we aimed to explore maternal health service utilization in relation to U5MR in China and its provinces in 1990–2017. Methods We obtained data from Global Burden of Disease 2017, China Health Statistics Yearbook, China Statistical Yearbook, and Human Development Report China Special Edition. The trend of U5MR in each province of China from 1990 to 2017 was analyzed using Joinpoint Regression model. We measured the inequities in maternal health services using HEAT Plus, a health inequity measurement tool developed by the UN. The generalized estimating equation model was used to explore the association between maternal health service utilization (including prenatal screening, hospital delivery and postpartum visits) and U5MR. Results First, in China, the U5MR per 1000 live births decreased from 50 in 1990 to 12 in 2017 and the average annual percentage change (AAPC) was − 5.2 (p < 0.05). Secondly, China had a high maternal health service utilization in 2017, with 96.5% for prenatal visits, 99.9% for hospital delivery, and 94% for postnatal visits. Inequity in maternal health services between provinces is declining, with hospital delivery rate showing the greatest decrease (SII, 14.01 to 1.87, 2010 to 2017). Third, an increase in the rate of hospital delivery rate can significantly reduce U5MR (OR 0.991, 95%CI 0.987 to 0.995). Postpartum visits rate with a one-year lag can reduce U5MR (OR 0.993, 95%CI 0.987 to 0.999). However, prenatal screening rate did not have a significant effect on U5MR. Conclusion The decline in U5MR in China was associated with hospital delivery and postpartum visits. The design and implementation of maternal health services may provide references to other low-income and middle-income countries.

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confidence: 99%

Association between maternal health service utilization and under-five mortality rate in China and its provinces, 1990–2017

Zhang,

Li,

Wei

et al. 2024

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth

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Looking inside the lab: a systematic literature review of economic experiments in health service provision

Finocchiaro Castro,

Guccio,

Romeo

2024

Eur J Health Econ

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Experimental economics is, nowadays, a well-established approach to investigate agents’ behavior under economic incentives. In the last decade, a fast-growing number of studies have focused on the application of experimental methodology to health policy issues. The results of that stream of literature have been intriguing and strongly policy oriented. However, those findings are scattered between different health-related topics, making it difficult to grasp the overall state-of-the-art. Hence, to make the main contributions understandable at a glance, we conduct a systematic literature review of laboratory experiments on the supply of health services. Of the 1248 articles retrieved from 2011, 56 articles published in peer-review journals have met our inclusion criteria. Thus, we have described the experimental designs of each of the selected papers and we have classified them according to their main area of interest.

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

Zhang

et al. 2022

BMC Health Serv Res

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Background Healthcare reforms in many countries have shown a movement from pure payment systems to mixed payment systems. However, there remains an insufficient understanding of how to design better mixed payment systems and how such systems, especially Diagnosis-Related-Group (DRG)-based systems, benefit patients. We therefore designed a controlled laboratory experiment to investigate the effects of fee-for-service (FFS), DRG, and mixed payment systems on physicians’ service provision. Methods A total of 210 medical students were recruited from Capital Medical University as subjects. They, in the role of physicians, were randomly divided into seven groups and chose the quantity of medical services for different patient types under pure FFS, pure DRG, or mixed payment schemes that included two FFS-based mixed payment schemes and three DRG-based mixed payment schemes. There were five rounds of each group of experiments, and each subject made 18 decisions per round. The quantity of medical services provided by subjects were collected. And relevant statistics were computed and analyzed by nonparametric tests and random effects model. Results The results showed that the physicians’ overprovision (underprovision) of services under FFS (DRG) schemes decreased under mixed payment schemes, resulting in higher benefit to patients under mixed payment schemes. Patients’ health conditions also affected physicians’ behavior but in different directions. Higher disease severity was associated with higher deviation of physicians’ quantity choices from the optimal quantity under DRG and DRG-based mixed payment schemes, while the opposite was found for FFS and FFS-based mixed payment schemes. Conclusions Mixed payment systems are a better way to balance physicians’ profit and patients’ benefit. The design of mixed payment systems should be adjusted according to the patient’s health conditions. When patients are in lower disease severity and resource consumption is relatively small, prospective payments or mixed systems based on prospective payments are more suitable. While for patients in higher disease severity, retrospective payments or mixed systems based predominantly on retrospective payments are better.

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Distribution of monetary incentives in health insurance scheme influences acupuncture treatment choices: An experimental study

Cited by 3 publications

References 43 publications

Association between maternal health service utilization and under-five mortality rate in China and its provinces, 1990–2017

Association between maternal health service utilization and under-five mortality rate in China and its provinces, 1990–2017

Looking inside the lab: a systematic literature review of economic experiments in health service provision

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

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