Table 3 The effect of Grade II Level A hospitals on medical expenditure
Variables | Medical expenditure | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total medical expenditure | Drug expenditure | Diagnostic testing expenditure | Medical consumables expenditure | Nursing care expenditure | Bed expenditure | Surgery expenditure | Blood expenditure | |
Grade II Level A hospitals | − 0.2449*** (128.88) | 0.2304*** (71.07) | 0.4641*** (148.21) | 0.2006*** (34.03) | − 0.0012 (− 12.46) | 0.0044** (2.20) | − 0.2333*** (− 15.25) | 0.1525*** (5.85) |
Reimbursement ratio | 2.8096*** (466.71) | 3.4378*** (333.59) | 2.7881*** (279.88) | 2.2562*** (120.87) | 1.1782*** (179.22) | 1.3802*** (214.34) | 1.9099*** (36.60) | 0.5015*** (8.40) |
Deductible | − 0.0005*** (− 59.34) | − 0.0011*** (− 87.26) | 0.0004*** (27.96) | − 0.0018*** (− 77.04) | − 0.0006*** (− 76.16) | − 0.0002*** (− 29.92) | − 0.0007*** (− 10.71) | − 0.0009*** (− 10.31) |
Gender | − 0.0233*** (− 17.08) | − 0.0589*** (− 25.25) | 0.0084*** (3.81) | − 0.0895*** (− 21.29) | 0.0047*** (3.18) | 0.0082*** (5.63) | 0.1272*** (11.82) | − 0.0782*** (− 5.92) |
Age | 0.0034*** (105.28) | 0.0044*** (79.39) | 0.0105*** (199.13) | 0.0008*** (7.86) | − 0.0008*** (− 24.23) | − 0.0013*** (− 37.35) | − 0.0011*** (− 4.03) | − 0.0018*** (− 4.79) |
Length of stay | 0.0374*** (385.04) | 0.0440*** (265.43) | 0.0142*** (89.60) | 0.0187*** (62.46) | 0.0565*** (527.33) | 0.0581*** (557.89) | 0.0131*** (18.62) | 0.0008 (1.53) |
Disease type | − 0.0098*** (− 6.55) | − 0.0658*** (− 25.79) | − 0.1772 (− 72.64) | 0.2493*** (54.11) | − 0.0082*** (− 5.02) | − 0.0159*** (− 10.03) | 1.0798*** (55.23) | 0.0725*** (3.84) |
Time | Controlled | Controlled | Controlled | Controlled | Controlled | Controlled | Controlled | Controlled |
Constant term | − 6.0303*** (− 17.87) | − 8.8004*** (− 15.31) | − 1.7797*** (− 3.24) | − 6.3431*** (− 6.13) | 3.2551*** (6.29) | 3.3614*** (6.66) | − 6.7069*** (− 3.55) | 6.9162*** (11.07) |
R2 | 0.6328 | 0.4548 | 0.4419 | 0.0867 | 0.5032 | 0.5333 | 0.0460 | 0.0273 |
Sample size | 488,623 | 486,558 | 483,777 | 483,797 | 488,166 | 486,079 | 117,194 | 8885 |