Does providing more services increase the primary hospitals' revenue? An assessment of national essential medicine policy based on 2,675 counties in China.

To understand whether the increased outpatient service provision (OSP) brings in enough additional income (excluding income from essential medicine) for primary hospitals (INCOME) to compensate for reduced costs of medicine.The two outcomes, annual OSP and INCOME for the period of 2008-2012, were co...

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Main Authors: Fei Chen, Min Yang, Qian Li, Jay Pan, Xiaosong Li, Qun Meng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5770050?pdf=render